Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Saliva or spittle thrown out carelessly; slaver.
- noun See
spall . - To throw saliva from the mouth so as to scatter it; eject spittle in a careless, dirty manner: sometimes with indefinite it.
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spall .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See
spall . - noun Scattered or ejected spittle.
- verb To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scattered or ejected
spittle - verb obsolete To scatter
spittle from the mouth; tospit - noun Alternative form of
spall .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge
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Examples
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My perspective on urban density is that it is ultimately not just about lifestyle choice but also about preparing for the inevitable long term rise in transportation costs that will make the “happy motoring” pattern of suburban spawl uneconomical for more and more people.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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My perspective on urban density is that it is ultimately not just about lifestyle choice but also about preparing for the inevitable long term rise in transportation costs that will make the “happy motoring” pattern of suburban spawl uneconomical for more and more people.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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I just fell that the more people move it, the more spawl, and the constructions of newer building will force us to be a Northern VA.
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Whatever noise is made by a spawl when stepped on is the one I want.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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Wal, fewd dan y 'de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy athaht pyin.
Act I 1916
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He pointed to the stone dust and spawl freshly dropped on the sidewalk and to a hole in the pavement, and then to a broken iron shell.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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Wal, fewd dan y 'de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy atbaht pyin.
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903
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In that condition the snake approaches, and moistens first one ear and then the other with his spawl, and after that the other parts of the head, to make all slippery.
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When it is angry, it has no way of resenting its wrongs, but by spitting in the face of those that provoke it: and if the spawl happen to light on the bare skin of any person, it first creates an itching, and afterwards a scab, if no remedy be applied.
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-- Thank you, and you may send the spawl of that creeping thing along with it; that guana.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
yarb commented on the word spawl
Citation on uriniferous.
June 19, 2009
qms commented on the word spawl
When he starts to rant and to bawl
The Donald can empty the hall.
Such violent throes
Will drench the front rows
In a mist of his venomous spawl.
July 21, 2015