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spilth

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[spilth] / spɪlθ /

noun

  1. spillage.

  2. something that is spilled.

  3. refuse; trash.


Etymology

Origin of spilth

First recorded in 1600–10; spill 1 + -th 1


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There it hums and caracoles, through the bottles and glasses; reckless what dangerous breakage and spilth it may occasion.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle

His foot slipped in the spilth of wine, and the huge body went down like an oak, the head of it striking one leg of the table.

From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott

But enough of the stale spilth of bar-rooms.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

Spilth, spilth, n. spilling, anything spilt or poured out lavishly, excess of supply.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Gold and jewels I threw; Still he couched there perdue; I tempted his blood and his flesh, Hid in roses my mesh,20 Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth; Still he kept to his filth.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds

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