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English
Etymology
Clipping of explosion.
Noun
'splosion (plural 'splosions)
- Pronunciation spelling of explosion.
1897, Louis Eisenbeis, “The Infidels of Buncombe”, in The Amen Corner, and Other Poems, West Chester, PA: F. S. Hickman, page 102:I tell you, Ruth, ’twas like a shot, a boombshell, within doubtin, / Whose ’splosion made the timbers fly, an set 'em all to poutin.
1905 September, “The Crutch”, in Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, page 24:“Yassum, I guess it wasn’t,” said the Little Bit of a Girl. “But that ain’t the funny part. I was up to th’ hospital f’r weeks an’ weeks an’ weeks, an’ I was there on a bed, an’ by me on ’nother bed was a big man who had been blew up by a ’splosion somewhere. He use to talk to me, an’ we was good friends f’r quite a spell, an’ when his wife use to bring him flowers he use to give some of ’em to me when she was gone away, yassum.
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