spilth
/spɪlθ/
spilth noun: spillage; spilled material.
Noun
spilth (countable and uncountable, plural spilths)
- 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!1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22
- Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC
spilth meaning in Tamil
spilth in Tamil
- சிந்தப்பட்ட நீர்மம், திரவம், எச்சம், கழிவு, குப்பை
Forms of spilth
| plural | spilths |
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Origin of spilth
From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).
Words that rhyme with spilth
Questions about spilth
- What does spilth mean?
- Spilth means spillage; spilled material.
- What is spilth in Tamil?
- Spilth in Tamil is சிந்தப்பட்ட நீர்மம், திரவம், எச்சம். See Spilth meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is spilth?
- Spilth is a noun.
- How do you pronounce spilth?
- Spilth is pronounced /spɪlθ/.
- What is the plural of spilth?
- The plural of spilth is spilths.
Words near spilth in the dictionary
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