Splot

//splɒt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A spot; splotch.

Etymology

From Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, blot, patch or plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Related to split.

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