spawl
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /spɔːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology 1
editPerhaps representing a frequentative form of spew.
Noun
editspawl (uncountable)
- Scattered or ejected spittle.
Verb
editspawl (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 terms
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editspawl (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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