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Spiel
Definitions
- 1 A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade. countable, uncountable
"I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel / But three little words can explain how I feel"
- 2 A game of curling.
"The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards"
- 3 plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) wordnet
- 4 An early form of rap music. countable, uncountable
"Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering.""
- 1 To talk at length. intransitive
"For a second our eyes met and he gave me a contemptuous smile, then he spieled again."
- 2 speak at great length (about something) wordnet
- 3 To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking. intransitive
- 4 replay (as a melody) wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil. Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.
Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil. Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.
From the Scots spiel (“game, play; curling match”) from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spel.
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