Speld

//spɛld// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chip of wood; a splinter. Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To split. Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal

    "I'm gonna speld your head asunderǃ You worthless gat."

Example

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"I'm gonna speld your head asunderǃ You worthless gat."

Etymology

From Middle English speld, spelde, from Old English speld (“a splinter; a chip of wood; torch”), from Proto-Germanic *speldą (“splinter, board”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”).

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