Oh, gosh, the spawny get question! We spent hours at... was it Butteller 2? looking this up online, didn't we? It was that final night, the one when Bacchus was wearing the Japanese t-shirt and got some of us very drunk on exciting mixtures of spirits and strange liqueurs, and got himself even drunker. I remember various failed attempts to access the OED using various local libraries' websites, and much chasing around, but no answers.