spilth

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English

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Etymology

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From spill +‎ -th. Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (annihilation, destruction, ruin).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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spilth (countable and uncountable, plural spilths)

  1. (archaic) Spillage; spilled material.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22:
      I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!
    • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
      Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip.
    • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
      Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor.