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spulzie

/ˈspʌlji/

spulzie noun: plunder; booty.

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...

Verb

spulzie (third-person singular simple present spulzies, present participle spulzieing, simple past and past participle spulzied)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) To plunder.

Forms of spulzie

Noun
pluralspulzies
alternative formspuilzie
alternative formspulye
alternative formspulyie
alternative formspuilyie
Verb
third-person singular presentspulzies
present participlespulzieing
past participlespulzied
pastspulzied

Origin of spulzie

Compare spoil.

Questions about spulzie

What does spulzie mean?
Spulzie means plunder; booty.
What part of speech is spulzie?
Spulzie can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce spulzie?
Spulzie is pronounced /ˈspʌlji/.
What is the plural of spulzie?
The plural of spulzie is spulzies.

Words near spulzie in the dictionary

  1. spulyes
  2. spulyie
  3. spulyied
  4. spulyieing
  5. spulyies
  6. spulzie
  7. spulzied
  8. spulzieing
  9. spulzies
  10. spulzying
  11. spumante

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