Spic (also spelled spik, spick, or spig) is an offensive ethnic slur used in the United States and occasionally in the United Kingdom for a person from Latin America or of Latino/Hispanic descent, sometimes including Spanish and Brazilian persons. The term is generally not capitalized. "Spic" can be used both as a noun and an adjective, and is even used at times as a name for the Spanish language. For example, Ernest Hemingway in Winner Take Nothing (1934, p. 200) wrote: "I wish I could talk spikspik questions."