Don't be such a spa

[Cristina de Felipe]

I'm reading an Irish book and I have found this sentence.

The context (two frieds talking, one of them says something very silly) makes clear spa means something like silly, naive, ridiculous or something like that but I don't know how offensive this word nor do I know the exact meaning. Maybe it's Irish slang. I've been unable to find an appropriate meaning in any dictionary so I was hoping you could help.

[MrPedantic]

It may be an abbreviation of "spastic", which is a fairly common term of abuse among children and adolescents.

Its use tends to be deprecated now.

Best wishes,

MrP

[susiedqq]

Was it "spaz"?

[Cristina de Felipe]

No, it's just as I wrote it in the thread title.

[Raymott]

Originally Posted by Cristina de Felipe

No, it's just as I wrote it in the thread title.

Urban Dictionary: spa

[Cristina de Felipe]

Thanks so much Raymott. Silly me! I had looked it up there before posting my question here BUT there was some ad after the first entries so I thought that was it. Now I scrolled further down and there was the answer. Thank you all.