spilth
noun/spɪlθ/
Etymology From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).
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Archaic Spillage; spilled material.
- I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22:
- Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
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- Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor.1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked: