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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spile .
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Examples
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Want things all to theirselves, these old jossers, and all on the strictest Q.T. T.eir idea of the T.ames being "spiled" by the smallest suggestion of spree,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various
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'What is it that I'm wantun?' he said; then in a deep plaintive tone he continued, more to himself than to me, 'All our brave bhoys and dear gurrls is away an' over the says, an 'the agent has taken the pig off me, an' the wet has spiled the praties, an '
THE HUNGER WAIL 2010
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Did you see the interview with "the guy who spiled on Al-Qa`idah"?
Sunday, July 08, 2007 As'ad 2007
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This is the way young coves is spiled and drove wrong.
Dombey and Son 2007
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While Kadara washes, Dorrin unloads Meriwhen, curries her, and gathers his spiled clothes.
The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994
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One of the neighbors told me, 'He jes' spiled dat gal, Mars 'Cap'n, a-lettin' her have her own way all de time.
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"Nigh on to three tons of it gone, an 'the rest spiled by smoke, I reckon."
Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck Allen Chapman
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I thought at first it was too good for me to eat but it'll get spiled, so
Peggy-Alone Mary Agnes Byrne
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We 'ad a rare barney, I tell you, although a bit spiled by the pour.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various
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Could we pull orf if _light_ spiled pluck and skill.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 Various
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