spavined

American  

[spav-ind] / ˈspæv ɪnd /

adjective

1. suffering from or affected with spavin.

2. being of or marked by a decrepit or broken-down condition.

   a spavined old school bus abandoned in a field.

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spavined British  

/ ˈspævɪnd /

adjective

1. vet science affected with spavin; lame

2. decrepit or worn out

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Etymology

Origin of spavined

First recorded in 1400–50, spavined is from the late Middle English word spaveyned. See spavin, -ed ³

Example Sentences

The emblematic meme stock of 2021 was GameStop, a spavined mall-based video game retailer that was struggling through the transformation of its franchise from brick-and-mortar stores to online commerce.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

But how much has it squandered in this spavined, untrustworthy inquiry?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

But it’s hardly as if Hirschfeld were content to sit in that spavined old barber’s chair up in his East Side aerie, sealed off from the wider world.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

Not the spavined buffoons of the Wodehousian imagination, but the revenge-crazed thugs of the century following the Restoration.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2010

Never before had the spavined old mare fled over the ground with the velocity she did that night, and Doctor Wiseman did not breathe freely until he was double-locked in his own room.

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes