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spuilyie

spuilyie is the alternative form of spulzie.

Meaning of spulzie

Noun

spulzie (countable and uncountable, plural spulzies)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) plunder; booty
    • 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 sorners1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...

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Forms of spuilyie

pluralspuilyies

Questions about spuilyie

What is spuilyie the alternative form of?
Spuilyie is the alternative form of spulzie.

Words near spuilyie in the dictionary

  1. spuggie
  2. spuggies
  3. spuggy
  4. spugs
  5. SPUI
  6. spuilyie
  7. spuilyies
  8. spuilzie
  9. spuilzied
  10. spuilzieing
  11. spuilzies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spuilyie (page history and authors); spulzie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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