spulzie
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editCompare spoil.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editspulzie (countable and uncountable, plural spulzies)
- (Scotland, obsolete) plunder; booty
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners
Verb
editspulzie (third-person singular simple present spulzies, present participle spulzieing, simple past and past participle spulzied)
References
edit- “spulzie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.