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单词 spirtle
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spirtlen.

/ˈspəːt(ə)l/
Etymology: Compare spirtle v.
A small spirt or jet; a sprinkle.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > [noun] > a jet > small
squirt1626
spirtle1881
spritz1935
spritz1964
skoosh1992
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent > in a jet > a jet > small
spirtle1881
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 251.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 115 Out of the grass, on a sudden, broke A spirtle of fire, a whorl of smoke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

spirtlev.

/ˈspəːt(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1600s spertle.
Etymology: < spirt v.1 + -le suffix.
Now dialect.
1. transitive. To sprinkle, spatter, or splash with something. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > bespatter
spirtle?1606
spattle1611
sprent1616
spurtle1633
bespatter1674
splash1699
spatter1718
sparge1786
splutter1835
slob1851
splatter1888
?1606 M. Drayton Ode x, in Poemes sig. C3v I creepe behynd the time From spertling [= being spirtled] with their crime.
1610–1 J. Davies Paper's Compl. in Wks. (Grosart) II. 76/1 He scraped mee With Pens that spirtled me with Villany.
1854– in midland and western glossaries.
2. To cause to spatter or splash; to disperse in small particles.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > cause to splash
spirtle1612
splash1879
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > particles or sparks
spattera1586
sparkle1590
spark1596
sputter1598
spirtle1612
spatter1721
splatter1786
splutter1835
spurtle1858
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 29 The braines and mingled blood, were spertled on the wall.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1786 I suppose from some of the fouled Oyl of the Pump spirtled on the Wheels.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. iv. 34 The Terraqueous Globe..would by the centrifugal force of that Motion, be soon dissipated, and spirtled into the circumambient Space.
1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 117 A sharp rain that so bashes the earth and spirtles it upon the grass as to cause a rot on..sheep.
3. intransitive. To become dispersed or scattered.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter or be dispersed [verb (intransitive)]
scatterc1430
shedc1485
sprattlea1500
spirtle1725
squander1823
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 7 Without which Power this Globe of ours would spirtle into ten thousand Millions of Pieces.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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