spulzie

English

Alternative forms

spuilzie, spulye, spulyie, spuilyie

Etymology

Compare spoil.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈspʌlji/, (spelling pronunciation) /ˈspʌlzi/

Noun

spulzie (countable and uncountable, plural spulzies)

(Scotland) plunder; booty
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], 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) To plunder.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spulzie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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