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spilth

noun
/spɪlθ/

Etymology

From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).

  1. derived from *(s)pel-✻
  2. derived from *spilþijaną✻
  3. derived from *spilþijan✻
  4. derived from spillan
  5. derived from spillen
  6. suffixed as spilth — “spill + th”

Definitions

  1. Spillage

    Spillage; spilled material.

    • I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!
    • Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip.
    • Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spilth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA