spawl

• IPA^(key): /spɔːl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Perhaps representing a frequentative form of spew.

spawl (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Scattered or ejected spittle.

spawl (third-person singular simple present spawls, present participle spawling, simple past and past participle spawled)

1. (obsolete, ambitransitive) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To say in a rough manner.

• bespawl

spawl (plural spawls)

1. Alternative form of spall.

• “spawl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Walps, pawls, plaws