Spiggoty

[Becky]

[Spiggoty] means a Spanish language speaker who cannot command English. Literally, [spiggoty] is a mocking imitation of “no speaka de English,” and arose among English speakers in Panama around [1900]. The shortened form of the word spiggoty is [spig]. An alteration of spig is [spic]. If the native Spanish speaker speaks English the individual cannot be called a spic.
“[Spic]” has nothing to do with the political label “Hispanic” as is erroneously thought.