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spulye

spulye is the obsolete 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 spulye

Noun
pluralspulyes
Verb
third-person singular presentspulyes
present participlespulyeing
past participlespulyed
pastspulyed

Questions about spulye

What is spulye the obsolete form of?
Spulye is the obsolete form of spulzie.

Words near spulye in the dictionary

  1. spuing
  2. SPUIs
  3. Spulber
  4. spule
  5. spules
  6. spulye
  7. spulyed
  8. spulyeing
  9. spulyes
  10. spulyie
  11. spulyied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spulye (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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