splay
verb /spleɪ/
/spleɪ/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they splay | /spleɪ/ /spleɪ/ |
| he / she / it splays | /spleɪz/ /spleɪz/ |
| past simple splayed | /spleɪd/ /spleɪd/ |
| past participle splayed | /spleɪd/ /spleɪd/ |
| -ing form splaying | /ˈspleɪɪŋ/ /ˈspleɪɪŋ/ |
- splay (something) (out) to make fingers, legs, etc. become further apart from each other or spread out; to be spread out wide apart
- She lay on the bed, her arms and legs splayed out.
- His long fingers splayed across her back.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySplay is used with these nouns as the object:- leg
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘unfold to view, display’): shortening of the verb display.