单词 | spirtle |
释义 | spirtlen. A small spirt or jet; a sprinkle. ΘΚΠ 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. Now dialect. 1. transitive. To sprinkle, spatter, or splash with something. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1881v.?1606 |
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