-spo
English
Etymology
From inspo, a clipping of inspiration. Popularised by thinspo.
Suffix
-spo
- (informal) A suffix combined with an adjective or noun to create a word to describe content (usually on social media) intended as inspiration to achieve a certain goal.
- 2016, Cat Pausé; Jackie Wykes; Samantha Murray, Queering Fat Embodiment, Routledge, →ISBN:
- By tagging representations of positive fatness as fatspo, they disrupt the discourse on what bodies are aspirational.
- 2018, Laura Thomas, Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food, Boxtree, →ISBN:
- For a lot of people, their social media feeds have disproportionate levels of fitspo or healthspo; they're not reflective of our overall interests.
- 2020, Pixie Turner, The Insta-Food Diet: How Social Media has Shaped the Way We Eat, Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN:
- Searches for #proana, #thinspiration, or #bonespo (used for 'inspiring' images of people with visible bones) won't show any results at all, even though the tags are still widely in use.
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Derived terms
English terms suffixed with -spo
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