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spuilzie

spuilzie 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 spuilzie

Noun
pluralspuilzies
Verb
third-person singular presentspuilzies
present participlespuilzieing
past participlespuilzied
pastspuilzied

Questions about spuilzie

What is spuilzie the alternative form of?
Spuilzie is the alternative form of spulzie.

Words near spuilzie in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spuilzie (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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