spanglen.1
/ˈspaŋɡ(ə)l/ 1. figurative.1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. viii. 28) God changeth our grisly wounds into spangles of beauty.a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) i. xi. 104 Are not many souls guilty, defiled, miserable beings? and are they all this while spangles of a Deity?a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) i. xvi. 179 The least spangle of happiness, is better then a globe of temporals.a1667 A. Cowley Hymn to Light ix, in Poems (1905) 445 Nor..dost thou scorn The humble Glow-worms to adorn, And with those living spangles gild..the Bushes of the Field.
a. A small round thin piece of glittering metal (usually brass) with a hole in the centre to pass a thread through, used for the decoration of textile fabrics and other materials of various sorts.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > spangle
spanglec1420
spang1423
spanglet1610
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 277 Of goldsmythes werke with spanglys wrought be-dene.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 467/1 Spangele, or losange.., lorale.
1485 Mat. ill. Reign Hen. VII (Rolls) II. 17 Item, xixx vnces in spangell for vii. gownes and plackardes for the henxmen.
1535 Inventory Wardrobe Katharine of Arragon 35 in Camden Misc. (1855) III Garnysshid..withe spangilles of silver and gilte.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xviii. sig. Ss8v His attiring..all cutte in starres, which made of cloath of siluer, and siluer spangles, each way seemed to cast many aspects.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 168 Many of the said Virgines have their neckbands set with spangles, such as some children with us weare.
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 862 As thin, as the thinnest Spangle you ever saw.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vi. 111 Their greatest Gold Coin, about the bigness of a Spangle.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 153 A tawdry scarf of yellow silk, trimmed with tinsel and spangles.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. civ Silver-gilt spangles wrought to figure six-petalled flowers.
b. transferred. A star.
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the world > the universe > star > [noun]
stareOE
starnc1175
lamp1423
aster1603
spangle1605
fires of heaven1609
asterism1657
sunleta1854
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 21 Those bright Spangles that the Heau'ns adorne.
1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue i. 351 Twinkling Spangles nightly brightly roule On sabled Circles of the whirling Pole.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 1 They but seeme to fall As Heavens other spangles doe.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 61 See round the Poles where keener spangles shine.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed viii, in Tales Crusaders I. 148 The thousand spangles that deck the firmament.
c. A glitter as of spangles. rare.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > spark or glittering light > sparkling or glittering
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coruscancy1630
emication1646
eruscationa1652
sparklingnessa1691
glitterance1801
glisten1840
spangle1853
sparkliness-
1853 Ld. Tennyson Sea-fairies (rev. ed.) in Poems (ed. 8) 44 The spangle dances in bight and bay.
1893 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 484 Not a breath of air was stirring; everywhere overhead was the spangle of the stars.
2.
a. A condensed particle reflecting light, as of hoar-frost, snow, or dew.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > objects or substances that reflect light > reflective particle
spangle1590
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost > hoar frost > particle of
spangle1590
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > snowflake
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flight1483
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flaughen1811
spangle1862
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. K3v As hoary frost with spangles doth attire The mossy braunches of an Oke halfe ded.
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 193 We took notice of the icy spangles in the air, flying about like atoms in the sun's beams.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iii. 88 On the rude cliffs with frosty spangles grey, Weak as the twilight gleams the solar ray.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 viii. 67 The wintry clouds, as you know, drop spangles on the mountains.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) v. §181. 146 I have also seen snow flakes descending so softly, as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed.
b. A glittering point or speck of light.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > spark or glittering light
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spangle1821
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crown jewel1851
twink1870
peep1882
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 75 The sun now sinks behind the woodland green, And twittering spangles glow the leaves between.
1841 B. Hall Patchwork II. viii. 146 The moon..scattering along the surface of the sea a bright..chain of spangles.
3. A small or minute glittering particle, esp. of a mineral substance.
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the world > the earth > minerals > [noun] > a mineral > fragment or particle
spark1562
spangle1611
glebe1731
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > spark or glittering light > glittering fragment or particle
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sparklec1570
spangle1611
diamond1815
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pailles,..the flakes, or spangles that flie from hammered, and red-hot yron, &c.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. v. 58 We saw it was a claie sand so mingled with yeallow spangles as if [etc.].
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 93 Found either in compact masses, or in spangles.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 35 Liquid spangles of powder and pomatum.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 606 It occurs there principally in spangles among the alluvial earths.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 388 Spangles are formed which scintillate and sparkle.
4.
a. A scale, spot, marking, etc., suggestive of a spangle.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [noun] > spangling > spangle
spangle1796
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 271 No shining spangles upon them or the calyx.
1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 441/2 A bractea, spangle, or floral leaf, differing in its appearance from the other leaves of the plant.
1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 157 These spangles,..in true-feathered birds, are formed perfectly whole and clearly defined.
1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law v. 250 A species of Lophornis with a tippet of emerald spangles.
b. An oak-spangle. (See oak n. Compounds 3.)
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth > on particular plants
oak-apple1440
bedeguar1578
sponge1608
oak-berry1626
oak nut1626
Aleppo gall1698
grape-gall1753
rose gall1753
oak galla1774
ear cockle1777
honeysuckle apple1818
sage-apple1832
robin's pincushion1835
oak spangle1836
robin's cushion1837
oak-wart1840
spangle1842
shick-shack1847
spangle-gall1864
tomato gall1869
Robin redbreast's cushion1878
knopper1879
trumpet-gall1879
spongiole1884
knot-gall1894
1842 P. J. Selby Brit. Forest Trees 288 Those beautiful little excrescences so common upon the under side of the leaves of the oak and known by the name of spangles.
1873 W. B. Tegetmeier Pheasants 5 Among the more singular articles of food that form part of the pheasants' very varied dietary may be mentioned the spangles of the oak leaf.
c. A fowl or pigeon belonging to a variety distinguished by speckled plumage.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > types of
rumpkin1676
bantam1749
Jersey blue1758
Dorking1779
Plymouth Rock1806
Java1813
shack-bag1816
Negro fowl1835
creeper1847
Minorca1848
cuckoo fowl1850
Leghorn1850
Brahmapootra1851
Ancona1853
shanghai1853
Andalusian1854
Bolton bay1854
Corsican cock1854
jacinth1854
Minorca1854
spangle1854
yellow leg1854
Crèvecœur1855
sultan1855
Hamburg1857
Leghorn1857
Yokohama1865
Houdan1871
Langshan1871
Wyandot1881
sultan hen1882
silkie1885
Orpington1887
rock1889
silver-grey1889
Campine1892
Rhode Island Red1893
Faverolles1902
Rhode Island White1905
Malines1906
Rhode Island1914
Australorp1922
maranc1934
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types
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runt1661
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mammet1678
Cortbeck1688
turbit1688
turner1688
dragoon1725
finicking1725
Leghorn1725
nun1725
owl1725
petit1725
trumpeter1725
horseman1735
Mahomet1735
barbel1736
turn-tail1736
frill-back1765
blue rock1825
beard1826
ice pigeon1829
toy1831
black1839
skinnum1839
splash1851
whole-feather1851
spangle1854
swallow1854
shield1855
stork pigeon1855
Swabian1855
yellow1855
archangel1867
dragon1867
starling1867
magpie1868
smerle1869
bluette1870
cumulet1876
oriental1876
spot fairy1876
turbiteen1876
blondinette1879
hyacinth1879
Modena pigeon1879
silver-dun1879
silverette1879
silver-mealy1879
swift pigeon1879
Victoria1879
visor1879
ice1881
swallow pigeon1881
velvet fairy1881
priesta1889
frill1890
1854 Poultry Chron. 2 66/1 Eighteen pens of beautiful silver spangles added to the old laurels of Mr. Vivian.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 175/2 The Toys [sc. pigeons] are as follows: Suabians or Spangles, [etc.].
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 355/2 The third kind is what the old breeders of Game fowls call ‘Spangles’. The cock is red and white in the hackle and saddle, and black and white in the tail and breast. The hens are partridge-colour, spotted with white.
1948 G. O. Rickwood Constable's Country 14 The..‘King's Arms’..was a rendezvous of cock-fighters in days when the ‘feeders’ of the birds—Shropshire reds, Staffordshire jet-blacks,..spangles and other noted breeds—were..important personages in the hierarchy of the sport.
5. Cant. A seven-shilling piece.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of seven shillings
spangle1811
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum
1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.)
6. U.S. (See quot. 1875.)
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2252/2 The clasps or spangles by which the wires and tapes of hoop-skirts are secured together.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as spangle embroidery, spangle gold, spangle-maker, spangle-stone, spangle-work.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Or de paillole, spangle gold; or gold thinne-beaten for spangles.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pailleteur, a Spangle-maker.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. H4 The Fringe..Is Spangle-work of trembling dew.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 216 Trash-mongers and Spangle-makers.
1803 H. J. Sarrett New Picture London 114 A great variety of Micæ or spangle stones.
1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Objects Indian Art S. Kensington Mus. 251 The black ground is covered with gold lace and spangle embroidery.
C2. † spangle-baby n. Obsolete a fop or dandy.† spangle-wort n. Obsolete a species of seaweed.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy
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miniona1513
prick-me-daintya1529
puppy?1544
velvet-coat1549
skipjack1554
coxcomb1567
musk cat?1567
physbuttocke1570
Adonis?1571
Adon1590
foretop1597
musk-cod1600
pretty fellow1600
sparkc1600
spangle-baby1602
flash1605
barber-monger1608
cocoloch1610
dapperling1611
fantastica1613
feather-cock1612
trig1612
jack-a-dandy?1617
gimcrack1623
satinist1639
powder puffa1653
fop1676
prig1676
foplinga1681
cockcomb1684
beau garçona1687
shape1688
duke1699
nab1699
smirk1699
beau1700
petty master1706
moppet1707
Tom Astoner1707
dapper1709
petit maître1711
buck1725
toupee1727
toupet1728
toupet-man1748
jemmy1753
jessamy1753
macaroni1764
majoc1770
monkeyrony1773
dandyc1780
elegant1780
muscadin1794
incroyable1797
beauty man1800
bang-up1811
natty1818
ruffian1818
exquisite1819
heavy swell1819
marvellous1819
bit of stuff1828
merveilleux1830
fat1832
squirt1844
dandyling1846
ineffable1859
guinea pig1860
Dundreary swell1862
masher1872
dude1877
mash1879
dudette1883
dand1886
heavy gunner1890
posh1890
nut1904
smoothie1929
fancy-pants1930
saga boy1941
fancy Dan1943
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. E3 We must haue false fiers to amaze these spangle babies, these true heires of Ma. Iustice Shallow.
spangle-gall n. = sense 4b.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth > on particular plants
oak-apple1440
bedeguar1578
sponge1608
oak-berry1626
oak nut1626
Aleppo gall1698
grape-gall1753
rose gall1753
oak galla1774
ear cockle1777
honeysuckle apple1818
sage-apple1832
robin's pincushion1835
oak spangle1836
robin's cushion1837
oak-wart1840
spangle1842
shick-shack1847
spangle-gall1864
tomato gall1869
Robin redbreast's cushion1878
knopper1879
trumpet-gall1879
spongiole1884
knot-gall1894
1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xxv. 493 The curious little galls..which are appropriately called Spangle-galls, because they are as circular and nearly as flat as metallic spangles.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > of unspecified or various types
sea-grass1591
rockweed1599
sea-tree1601
zoster1601
float-ore1602
vraic1610
sea-wrack1611
spangle-wort1681
trunk-weed1730
turtle-grass1736
sea-pine1762
agar-agar1769
greenweed1820
bull-kelpc1929
agarophyte1944
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. §v. ii. 247 Flat Coralline, as it may be called, or Spangle-Wort.
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spanglen.2
Scottish and Irish English. ? Obsolete.
A measure of yarn.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > other measures or quantities of
lease1391
lea1399
knotc1540
needleful1598
cut1632
winch1640
slip1647
spangle1705
vat1730
pad1746
heer1774
count1837
1705 Spreull Acc. Current betw. Scot. & Eng. in Misc. Writ. (1882) 12 Out of a Pound weight of Lint that grew at home, there was six Spangle of fine Yarn Spun or got out of it.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 166 The 8 lb. [of flax] will spin into..20 hanks or 5 spangles fit for a ten hundred cloth.
1865 Irel. & her Staple Manuf. (E.D.D.) Every hank contained a dozen cuts,..and four hanks were counted as a spangle.
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spanglev.
/ˈspaŋɡ(ə)l/ 1. figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 90 This is Timons last, Who stucke and spangled you with Flatteries, Washes it off. View more context for this quotationfigurative.1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam (ed. 4) 84 It is in fashion with you to spangle your speeches with new quodled words.1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VIII. xlix. 202 They spangle over their productions with metaphors.
a. transitive. To decorate (a garment or the like) with spangles.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other
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set1530
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superbody1552
to pull out1553
quilt1555
flute1578
seam1590
seed1604
overtrim1622
ruffle1625
tag1627
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tuck1709
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pre-board1940
post-board1963
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > spangle
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spang1552
bespangle1593
o1628
bespankle1629
starrify1633
sequin1893
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xvj Russet satyn, spangled with spangels of fine gold.
1572 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 180 To John Bettes and his wyfe for one daye and one nighte spangling of the headpeeces.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pailleter, to spangle, to bespangle, to trimme, or decke, with spangles.
1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Chron. 183/2 They were all five in Spanish dresses..of white crape spangled with gold.
1807 Salmagundi 31 Dec. 392 The young ladies are industriously spangling muslins.
1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Objects Indian Art S. Kensington Mus. 269 The muslin..has a very gay appearance, as if spangled.
1904 E. B. Tweedie Behind Footlights xi. 210 Women..trimming headgear, others spangling ribbon.
b. To adorn as with spangles; to cause to glitter as if so decorated. Const. with.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (transitive)] > emit (fire, etc.) as or like sparks > cause to sparkle or glitter
sparkle1553
spangle1605
diamond1839
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 117 He th' Azure Tester trim'd with golden markes, And richly spangled with bright glistering sparks.
?1614 W. Drummond Urania in Poems To spread the Azure Canopie of Heauen, And spangle it all with Sparkes of burning Gold.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. xxiii. 31 A hundred torches play'd, Spangling the deep with lights.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 253 The finger of that hand Which spangled o'er infinity with suns.
1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 1 There had been a hard frost, spangling the meadows with rime-crystals.
2. Of things: To dot or cover (something) after the manner of spangles.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > spangle > of things
spanglea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. vi. 32 What stars do spangle heauen with such beautie? View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 384 With thousand thousand Starres, that then appeer'd Spangling the Hemisphere. View more context for this quotation
1795 S. T. Coleridge To Author of Poems 36 With stars, unseen before, spangling her robe of night!
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xxxv. 236 The Sunda islands, which spangle the eastern ocean.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iv. 34 Innumerable plates of mica spangled the fine sand.
3.
a. In passive: To present an appearance as if decorated with spangles; to be dotted or spotted with something suggestive of spangles.
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 130 Four faces each Had.., all thir shape Spangl'd with eyes. View more context for this quotation
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 136 This lawn is..in the season spangled with autumnal colchicum.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 33 Her skin..being spangled here and there with a golden freckle.
1840 W. M. Thackeray George Cruikshank (1869) 305 The pew..wadded, and stuffed, and spangled over with brass nails.
1850 C. Kingsley N. Devon: Pt. III in Misc. (1860) II. 299 These bright grey granite rocks, spangled with black glittering mica and golden lichens.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. 13 The meadows, spangled with yellow flowers.
b. In figurative applications.
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1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Aiijv That worke shall come out of the Presse like a bride from her chamber, spangled and trapt.
1828 R. Duppa Trav. Italy 84 Rich and varied scenery, spangled at once with the comforts and refinements of life.
1893 J. McCarthy Dictator I. 79 Long letters spangled with stirring allusions to the Empire.
c. To be dotted or scattered about, like spangles.
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1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. v. 28 The Villages, that lie spangled about this vast Circumference.
4. intransitive. To glitter or sparkle with, or in the manner of, spangles.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > sparkle or glitter
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shimc950
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glore13..
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sprinklea1400
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simper1633
twink1637
spangle1639
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scintillize1694
prinkle1724
skinkle1765
winkle1791
coruscate1807
1639 J. Mayne Citye Match To Rdr. Masquers..spangle, & glitter for the time, but tis through tinsell.
1665 J. Bunyan Holy Citie 177 All these things will spangle in the New Jerusalem.
a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 15 Tassils spanglynge ynne the sunne, Muche glorious to beholde.
1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 47 A contrast to all the other objects which spangle in the starry vault.
1857 S. Wilberforce Speeches on Missions (1874) 315 Just as..you see the sparks flashing and spangling.
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- a bit and a sup
- a bit hot
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- a bit much
- a bit of
- a bit of a lad
- a bit of a muchness
- a bit of all right
- a bit of blood
- a bit of blue
- a bit of cavalry
- a bit of crackling
- a bit of crumpet
- a bit of fat
- a bit of fluff
- a bit of goods
- a bit of homework
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