US /spɪlθ/ UK /spɪlθ/
noun Freq #794079

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    Spillage; spilled material

    I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!

Etymology

From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).

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