spawl
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Perhaps representing a frequentative form of spew.
NounEdit
spawl (uncountable)
- Scattered or ejected spittle.
VerbEdit
spawl (third-person singular simple present spawls, present participle spawling, simple past and past participle spawled)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit.
- (obsolete, transitive) To say in a rough manner.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
spawl (plural spawls)
- Alternative form of spall
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spawl in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)