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English
Etymology
Compare spoil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspʌlji/, (spelling pronunciation) /ˈspʌlzi/
Noun
spulzie (countable and uncountable, plural spulzies)
- (Scotland, obsolete) plunder; booty
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners
Verb
spulzie (third-person singular simple present spulzies, present participle spulzieing, simple past and past participle spulzied)
- (Scotland, obsolete) To plunder.
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