单词 | spottle |
释义 | spottlev. Chiefly English regional (midlands). transitive. To spot or spatter thickly; to splash. Also intransitive with on. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter (a surface) with something > thickly sowc1400 lard1543 bepeps1622 spottle1839 1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 99 To spottle, to splash. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 278 Spottle, to splash or spot with mud or dirty liquid. ‘How you spottle the ink about!’ 1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 15 He delighted in making maps of Asia Minor, and could spottle an impromptu Ægean with wriggling islands. 1948 Life & Lett. & London Mercury Aug. 149 A little trickle of saliva..falls down from his pink, open jaw, to spottle on the pavement. 2003 M. Taylor Poppy Silk xiii. 183 Jericho hurled the brick. He missed, merely succeeding in spottling the pig with mud. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1839 |
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