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单词 spettle
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spettlen.

Forms: Middle English spetil, 1500s spettill, spettyl, 1600s spettell; 1500s–1600s spetle, spettle.
Etymology: representing Old English spǽtl , variant of spátl spattle n.1, or modification of spattle after spete v. and spet v. Compare spittle n.2
Obsolete.
Spittle, spit. (Frequently c1575–1650.)
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] > spittle
spattlec897
spoldOE
spattlingc1000
speche?c1225
spita1300
spittinga1300
spotec1350
spittle1481
spettlea1500
salivation1601
spawlings1614
spawl1647
expectoration1650
snivel1698
slabber1718
outspitting1870
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 240 Sutil and thyn spetil that descendyth or comyth doune fro the Palete of the mouth.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. John ix. 6 He spittit into the erd, and made clay of the spettil [1535 Coverd. spetle].
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft ii. vi. 28 She will put spettle priuilie vpon hir cheeks, and seeme to weepe.
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 130 Hee spets at Heav'n, And his owne spettle in his face is driven.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis sig. A2v Thy Cheeks on each side bored through appear; Thorough whose holes (the slavering Spetles vent) The Teeth [etc.].
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. 13 No Blood, from bitten Nails, those Poems drew: But churn'd, like Spettle, from the Lips they flew.
in extended use.1555 R. Eden Briefe Descr. Moscouia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 262v The swette of heauen, or as it were a certeyne spettyl of the starres.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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