spa

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A health club.

   They went to a spa for a massage.

2. 2
   noun

   A hot tub.

   Their bath is fitted with a spa.

3. 3
   noun

   An idiot; a gobshite

   What the fuck was she talking about, he must think she's such a spa.

4. 4
   noun

   A clumsy person (see spastic)

   — Hit it. He missed. — You're a big spa, I told him.

5. 5
   noun

   a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness

6. 6
   noun

   a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area

7. 7
   noun

   a health resort near a spring or at the seaside

8. 8
   noun

   Abbreviation of spondyloarthritis.

Etymology

The town name is from Walloon espa (“fountain, spring”), which could be from Latin spargere (“to spread, scatter”) or spatium (“free space”).