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spulyie

spulyie 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 spulyie

Noun
pluralspulyies
Verb
third-person singular presentspulyies
present participlespulyieing
past participlespulyied
pastspulyied

Questions about spulyie

What is spulyie the obsolete form of?
Spulyie is the obsolete form of spulzie.

Words near spulyie in the dictionary

  1. spules
  2. spulye
  3. spulyed
  4. spulyeing
  5. spulyes
  6. spulyie
  7. spulyied
  8. spulyieing
  9. spulyies
  10. spulzie
  11. spulzied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spulyie (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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