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Murrays New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025.
Spasmy
a.
[f. S
PASM
+ -
Y
1
.] Affected by spasms.
1
a.
1849. J. C. Mangan,
Poems
(1903), 168.
Or man
That danced like the god Pan,
Twitching
A spasmy face
From side to side with a grace
Bewitching.
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