单词 | spawl |
释义 | † spawln. Obsolete. Spittle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] > spittle spattlec897 spoldOE spattlingc1000 speche?c1225 spita1300 spittinga1300 spotec1350 spittle1481 spettlea1500 salivation1601 spawlings1614 spawl1647 expectoration1650 snivel1698 slabber1718 outspitting1870 1647 H. More Philos. Poems 274 Lastly into his mouth with filthy spaul He spot. 1647 H. More To Young Authour in J. Hall Poems sig. A4v The well drench'd smoaky Jew, That stands in his own spaul above the shooe. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires ii. 23 Th' Obscene old Grandam..first of Spettle a Lustration makes: Then in the Spawl her Middle Finger dips. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). spawlv. Obsolete exc. archaic. 1. a. intransitive. To spit copiously or coarsely; to expectorate.In quot. 1599 in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] > spit spattlec1000 spetec1000 spittlec1340 spit1377 spetc1421 fipple?1507 reach1540 spawl1599 spatter1618 sputter1681 expectorate1823 gob1881 flob1977 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 59 Our Norwich now..was a poore fisher towne, and the sea spawled and springed vp to her common stayres. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. sig. G3v Pray spawle in another roome: fie, fie, fie. 1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 19 He..so spawles, and drivells, he has almost made a puddle where he stands. 1730 J. Swift Traulus I 3 Why must he sputter, spaul and slaver it In vain, against the People's Fav'rite? 1755 Connoisseur No. 95. ⁋11 I began to spawl, and sputter, and keck. 1864 R. Browning Mr. Sludge in Dramatis Personæ 200 He may strut and fret his hour, Spout, spawl, or spin his target, no one cares!] b. Coupled with spit. ΚΠ 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. B3v Talke bawdery and Chrestina spets and spals. 1609 G. Markham Famous Whore (1868) 41 Now are my faculties..to cough, to spaule, to spit, to raile. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 170 Sotting and smoaking ten or twenty Pipes of Tobacco in a day,..and spitting and spawling. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) I. xxxix. 49 The fellow..fell a spitting and spawling about the room. 1793 Laity's Direct. 20 The unclean trick of hawking, spitting or spawling about the chapel. c. With prepositions, as at, on. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. ii. 134 To spit and spaule upon his Sun-bright face. 1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. 361 Nor shouldst thou more Spaul on his Name, then Spit in His Face. 1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. M2v He presently grows disdainfull, and spawles at me. 2. transitive. To utter in a coarse manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)] > swear or use profanity waryc1000 spew?c1225 flavour1542 vomit1592 spawl1640 cuss1831 explete1902 adjective1906 1640 J. Earle Elegie in F. Beaumont Poems sig. Kv Such mouthes,..That twixt a whiffe, a lyne or two rehearse, And with their Rheume together, spawle a verse. 1791 W. Gifford Baviad 312 And itching grandams spawl lascivious odes. Derivatives ˈspawler n. a spitter. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [noun] > action of spitting > one who spits spittera1382 spetter1580 spawler1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cracheur, a spitter, spawler, spatterer. ˈspawling adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [adjective] > spitting sputtering1598 spawling1603 sputativea1639 spitting1688 spitty1742 expectorative1863 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxxviii. 120 This man, whom..thou seest,..fleugmatike, squalide, and spauling. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 340 The spawling Empiem..With foule impostumes fills his hollow chest. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1647v.1598 |
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