Reverse Dictionary: SPIT – SPOM

SPIT, SPITTING, SPITTLE – ADJECTIVES
– EXSPUTORY that is spit out or ejected …1784 rare
– HAWK-A-MOUTH continually hawking and spitting …1866 Eng. dial.
– HAWK-A-MOUTHED perpetually hawking and spitting …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SIALOQUENT spitting much in one’s speech …1656 obs.
– SPUTATIVE given to excessive spitting or salivation …a1639 obs. rare

SPIT etc. – NOUNS
– DROOL spittle …M19 sl., orig. US
– GOLLYER a gob of spittle …1966 Ireland
– GOOBY a gob of spit or phlegm …1985 NZ sl.
– HOCKER a gob of phlegm or spit …1960s US teen sl.
– LUNGER a mouthful of spit; a gob of phlegm …1940s US sl.
– MEATY spit with a good amount of mucus in it …c1970s UK playground sl.
– OYSTER a gob of phlegm or spittle …1785 sl.
– WAD expectorated sputum …1989 US sl.

SPIT etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– HAWCH-A-MOUTH one who hawks and spits …1746 Eng. dial.
– HAWCH-MOUTH one who hawks and spits …1746 Eng. dial.
– SPATTERER one who spatters or spits…1611 rare
– SPAWLER a spitter…1611 

SPIT etc. – VERBS
– BESPALL;  BESPAWL to bespatter with saliva or spittle …1602 obs.
– BESPETE to spit upon, to cover or defile with spitting …a1225 obs.
– BESPIT to spit upon …a1300 arch.
– CONSPUTE to spit upon (in contempt); to despise …1526 obs. rare
– GOB to expectorate, to spit, to cough up …1872 sl.
– GOLLY to expectorate …1978 Aust. sl.
– GROYZE to spit …1891 sl.
– HACK to vomit; to spit up …M20 US sl.
– HAWK to clear the throat of phlegm; to clear the throat noisily; to spit …1583
– HAWK UP to expel anything from the throat by the force of the breath; to spit; to cough up and spit phlegm …Bk1902 Sc.
– HOACH AND HAW to hawk and spit …1777 Eng. dial.
– HOCKER to hawk up …1990s sl.
– LET FLY to spit …20C US sl.
– RAISE to expectorate; to bring up phlegm …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– REAR to bring up phlegm; to expectorate; to vomit …1790 Eng. dial.
– RID to retch, to vomit; to cough up; to expectorate …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SPUTE to spit on a person or on something …1382 obs.
– YESK to belch; to hawk; to cough, to clear the throat, to expectorate …c1386 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YEX to belch; to hawk; to cough, to clear the throat, to expectorate …c1386 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YOX to belch; to hawk; to spit …1827 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

SPITE – NOUNS
– ACID rancour, spite; bitterness, sourness …1768
– BAD-MIND malice, spite, animosity …20C W. Indies sl.
– CANKEREDNESS malice, spite; ill-humour; crabbed temper …1538
– DOG-MEANNESS ill will, spite, malice…1914 Amer. dial.
– ENVY-STRIPE spite …1927 Amer. dial.
– GALL bitterness, spite, malice; a grudge …1768 Sc.
– NIFF a quarrel, grudge, or spite; also dislike …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– ONDE strong feeling against a person, ‘animus’; spite, ill-will, envy …c1000 obs.
– VENOM malice, spite …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– VENOMY venomousness, spite, malice …1548 obs.

SPITEFUL, SPITEFULLY, SPITEFULNESS – ADJECTIVES
– ADDER-TONGUED spiteful, malicious …1824
– ATTERY of mood, temper, disposition: bad-tempered, spiteful, quarrelsome, peevish, angry, hot-headed …1742 Sc.
– CANKERED malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed …1513
– CANKERLY malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered,, crabbed …1580 obs.
– CAT-WITTED small-minded, obstinate, and spiteful; silly and conceited; harebrained, whimsical …1673
– DESPITEOUS spiteful, malevolent, malicious, cruel;  passing gradually into the sense: pitiless, merciless …c1510
– DISPITEOUS cruel; spiteful; pitiless, merciless …1803 
– DOGGISH malicious, spiteful, bad-tempered, ill-natured; snappish, snarling; cynical…a1425 rare
– ELVISH irritable, spiteful, mischievous …1813 Eng. dial.
– HAGGERSNASH spiteful, sharp, tart …1821 Sc.
– ILL-WILLY bad-tempered, spiteful, grudging, disobliging …a1500 chiefly Sc.
– LOW-WITTED showing or caused by malice; spiteful, mean …1742
– LUNGEOUS of persons: rough-mannered, violent in play; spiteful, mischievous; ill-tempered …1787 Eng. dial.
– MASTERFUL spiteful …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NASTY AS A DEVIL UNKNOBBED, AS dangerously spiteful …1892 Eng. dial.
– ONDFUL spiteful, envious …c1175. obs.
– RANCOROUS having, or partaking of, the nature of rancour; bitter, resentful, spiteful …1590
– VENOM venomous; virulent, malignant, spiteful, fierce, malicious, savage …a1350 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– VENOMOUS spiteful …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VENOMSOME venomous, spiteful, malicious …1660 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– VENOMY venomous, spiteful, malignant, malicious …c1400 rare
– VITIOUS spiteful, revengeful, bitter, implacable …1825 Eng. dial.
– VITTERY quick-tempered, spiteful …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

SPITEFUL etc. – ADVERBS
– CANKEREDLY spitefully, malignantly; peevishly …1535
– CANKERLY spitefully, malignantly, peevishly …1580 obs.
– RANCOROUSLY bitterly, spitefully …1767

SPITEFUL etc. – NOUNS
– BITTERSWEET a spiteful thing done under pretense of friendliness …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DOG’S TRICK a low or despicable trick; a treacherous or spiteful act; a bad turn …1742 rare
– RANCOUR inveterate and bitter ill-feeling, grudge, or animosity; malignant hatred or spitefulness; bitterness …a1300

SPITEFUL etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ATTERMITE an ill-tempered, spiteful person …1864 Eng. dial.
– ATTRAMITE an ill-tempered, spiteful person …1864 Eng. dial.
– BITCH a malicious or spiteful woman …a1400
– BITCH QUEEN one who finds fault with everything; one who constantly complains; a spiteful shrew …Bk1972 homosexual sl.
– BIZATCH ‘bitch’; a spiteful or unpleasant woman …1997-2000 US euphemism 
– BIZNATCH ‘bitch’; a spiteful or unpleasant woman; a difficult or unpleasant situation or thing …2002 US euphemism
– BIZNITCH ‘bitch’; a spiteful or unpleasant woman; a difficult or unpleasant situation or thing …2002 US euphemism
– CAT a term of contempt for a person; esp. one who scratches like a cat; a spiteful or backbiting woman …a1225
– CATAWAMPUS a spiteful person …1843 Amer. dial.
– HAGGERSNASH a spiteful person …B1900 Sc.
– HELLCAT a mean, spiteful or malicious person, esp. a woman; a reckless, impertinent, bad-tempered, or vexatious person; a troublemaker; a devil-may-care person; one who pesters or annoys …1899 Amer. dial.
– MISS FITCH a spiteful woman; an unpleasant woman …20C rhyming sl. for ‘bitch’ 
– OLD CAT a malicious or spiteful woman; a mean, cunning woman; a shrewish man …1915 Amer. dial.
– PADDOCK a contemptible, mean, or spiteful person …a1475 derogatory
– SCLUM-CAT a spiteful person, one who scratches another …1877 Eng. dial.
– TABBY an old or elderly maiden lady; an old maid; sometimes applied to any spiteful or ill-natured female gossip or tattler …1761 
– VENIM;  VENOM a spiteful, vicious person or animal; a very objectionable creature …1898 Sc.
– WILD CAT an ill-natured, spiteful person …1825 Sc.

SPITEFUL etc. – VERBS
– CAST ASPARAGUS to cast aspersions, to make damaging or spiteful remarks …1916 Amer. jocular usage
– VENNER UP to become angry or spiteful …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

SPITFIRE – NOUNS, PERSON
a spitfire; a furious, fierce fellow; a braggart; a blusterer; a noisy bully’ a very difficult or devilish person  CACAFUEGO;  CACAFUGO;  CACOFUEGO 1625 sl.

SPITTOON – NOUNS
– a spittoon CUSPIDOR 1779 US
– a spittoon SPIT-BOX 1833
– a spittoon, a cuspidor GARBOON 1965 Amer. dial.
– a spittoon, a cuspidor GOBBOON 1958 Amer. dial.
– a spittoon, a cuspidor GOBOON 1930s Amer. dial.
– a spittoon, a cuspidor GOBOON CAN 1965 Amer. dial.

SPLASH, SPLASHED, SPLASHING – ADJECTIVES
– BESMOTTERED splashed or spattered as with mud or dirt …c1386 obs. rare
– BESPRENTED sprinkled, splashed …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BLATHERED;  BLUTHERED muddy, splashed, wet; defaced …1768 Sc & Eng. dial.
– BLATHERY muddy, splashed, wet; defaced …1889 Sc. & Eng. dial.

SPLASH etc. – NOUNS
– BLASH a splash or dash of liquid, mud, etc. …Bk1911 Sc.
– JABBLE a slight agitated movement of water or other liquid; a splashing or dashing in small waves or ripples …1831 Sc.
– JAUP the splash of water against any surface, or one of the drops or spurts of water which this scatters on adjacent bodies; a spot of water or wet mud splashed upon the clothes from wet or muddy ground, etc. …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– LABBERMENT a splashing; a washing of linen on a small scale …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAPPER a gentle splash of water …1925 Sc.
– SCLATCH a heavy fall, esp. into water or mud; a splash, a dashing down, slap, smack or the noise of such …1808 Sc.
– SLUSH a heavy splashing sound …L19
– SPLAT the slapping or splashing noise of something that hits a hard surface …1950s sl.

SPLASH etc. – VERBS
– BATTER to splash with mud …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BESPURT to splash or spatter, to befoul …1579 obs.
– BESPURTLE to splash or splatter; to befoul …1618
– BESQUIRT to befoul by squirting, to splash, to splatter …1611 obs.
– BLASH to splash liquid or mud about by spilling it or treading in it …Bk1911 Sc.
– DABBLE to wet by splashing, as in running through a puddle or wading about in shallow water, etc. …1575
– DAGGLE to wet by splashing or sprinkling …1805
– DEMBLE to dip or plunge in liquid; to splash …B1900 Sc.
– FLASH to splash or dash water …14C obs.
– FLOBBER  to flow against; to wash or splash over …1888
​- JABBLE to agitate a liquid so as to cause spilling, to splash …1824 Sc.
– JAUP;  JAWP to dash and rebound like water with splashing of the vicinity; to splash; to make a light splashing sound …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– JAW to rush in waves; to dash or pour; to splash; to surge …1513 Sc.
– LABBER to dabble or splash in water …1889 Eng. dial.
– LAGGEN to splash in the water; to walk in the water with bare feet …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAPPER of water: to lap, to splash gently, to ripple …1893 Sc.
– LOPPER of water: to lap, to splash gently, to ripple …1893 Sc.
– LOSH to make the lapping sound caused by a running stream flowing over stones, etc.; to splash in water; of water in a barrel or boat: to roll to and fro …1629 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SKIRP to splash up on; to bespatter …1871 Sc.
– SLUSH to splash, squelch, or wade, esp. through muddy water, snow, etc. …E18 orig. Sc.

SPLATTER – VERBS
– to splatter or splash; to befoul BESPURTLE 1618
– to splatter, to splash, to befoul by squirting BESQUIRT 1611 obs.

SPLAY-FOOTED – NOUNS, PERSON
– a splay-footed person MARLEY-SLOPPER M19 sl.
– a splay-footed person MARLEY STOPPER M19 sl.
– a splay-footed person, one who walks with his toes much turned out DING-DEW Bk1900 Eng. dial.

SPLAY-FOOTED – VERBS
– SCLEET;  SKLEET to walk so as to wear down the shoes at one side, or as one splay-footed …Bk1904 Sc.

SPLEEN – NOUNS
– the spleen RATE 1486 obs. rare
– the spleen RATEL 1503 obs. rare

SPLENDID, SPLENDIDLY – ADJECTIVES
– ALA-MONA-GORGEOUS excellent, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– ALL TO THE MERRY splendid …1908 Amer. sl.
– ANGELIFEROUS angelic; splendid; excellent; first-rate; pleasant; delightful …1840 Amer. dial. rare
– AWLENCH to make splendid, to adorn …c1200 obs.
– BAKGAT splendid, first-rate …1960s S. Afr.
– BANG-UP very good, first-rate, splendid, excellent …1834 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BEATEMEST most excellent or splendid …1833 US dial.
– BRAWLY grand, splendid …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRIGHT of a person, place, etc.: excellent, sublime; glorious, splendid; brilliant, illustrious …c1250
– BUSTING very big; splendid …1847 Amer. sl.
– CANDID splendid, illustrious; fortunate …1648 obs.
– CASMALA fine, excellent, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– COLD-BLOODED striking; exceptional; splendid; very cool  …1969 African-American sl.
– DANDY fancy; fashionable; hence, splendid, first-rate, excellent, fine; very good of its kind …1792 colloq., orig. US
– DINGERY splendid, just the thing …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– EUJIFFEROUS grand, splendid, excellent , first-rate, great …1911 Amer. dial.
– EXPOLAGOLLUCIOUS splendid, very fine, elegant …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– FAMISH excellent, splendid; used as an emphatic expression of approval …1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FAMOUS excellent, grand, magnificent, splendid; used as an emphatic expression of approval …1798 colloq.
– FAT-CITY excellent, splendid …1960s sl.
– FAYMISH excellent, splendid; used as an emphatic expression of approval …1827 Eng. dial.
– FIZZING excellent, very good, first-rate, splendid …1885 Eng. dial. sl.
– FOXY excellent; first-rate; splendid, good …1900s African-American sl.
– FUNKED-UP excellent, splendid, first-rate …1990s African-American sl.
– GALLANT excellent, splendid, fine, grand …1539 rare
– GALLOPTIOUS splendid, fine, excellent …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GLOBSLOPTIOUS splendid, fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GOBERSLOPTIOUS splendid, fine, excellent …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GOBSLOPTIOUS splendid, fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GOLOPTIOUS fine, splendid, delicious, luscious …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GRANDIFEROUS grand, splendid, glorious …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GRANDILIOUS splendid, fine, grand …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GUMPTIOUS splendid, fine, excellent, first-rate …1916 Amer. dial.
– HOT absolute first-rate, splendid; good or well; fashionably attractive …1866 Amer. sl.
– HUMGUMPTIOUS splendid, excellent, pretentious …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– HUNKUM-BUNKUM very fine, excellent, good, splendid …1908 Amer. dial
– HYPERFIRMACIOUS fine, splendid, excellent …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– IMMENSE superlatively good, fine, splendid …1762 sl.
– LAPLOLLY splendid, fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– LICKING first-rate, splendid, excellent …c1680 sl. obs.
– LUPERGLOBSLOPCIOUS grand, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– LUSTRIOUS splendid, lustrous …1651 obs. rare
– MAGNIFIC sumptuous, splendid …1490 arch.
– MAGNIFICAL splendid, stately, sumptuous …1538 arch.
– MAGNIFIQUE magnificent, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– MAGNOLIOUS magnificent, splendid, large …1865 sl.
– NIFTY BEANS absolutely splendid, great, wonderful; admirable …1971 Amer. sl.
– NIFTY-KEEN absolutely splendid, great, wonderful; admirable …1971 Amer. sl.
– O.K.;  OKAY adj. in order; quite satisfactory or acceptable; very good; splendid …1839 colloq.
– OPIME rich, abundant, sumptuous, splendid …1533 obs.
– OPIMOUS rich, abundant, plentiful, sumptuous, splendid …1656 obs.
– OPIPAROUS rich, sumptuous, splendid …1621 obs. rare
– PALACIOUS of the nature of a palace; splendid, magnificent (as a building) …1628 obs.
– PALATIATE of the nature of a palace; splendid, magnificent (as a building) …1632 obs. rare
– PALLACIOUS of the nature of a palace; splendid, magnificent (as a building) …1628 obs.
– PEACHAGULU splendid, excellent …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PEACHY excellent, wonderful; great, fine, splendid …1900 Amer. sl.
– PERSKWEE splendid, fine, excellent …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RAPTERIFEROUS splendid, glorious …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RARE a general term of approval: splendid, excellent, fine, great, grand, first-rate; also in ironic negative use …1596 colloq.
– RATTLING good, splendid, excellent, great; first-rate; of good quality …1851 Eng. dial.
– RATTLING-GOOD splendid, fine, excellent …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RICOCHET gay; splendid …Bk1903 American cadet usage
– RIPPING excellent; first-rate, splendid, great …1858 Amer. sl.
– RORTY fine, splendid, jolly; of the very best …c1864 sl.. orig. Londoner’s sl.
– SCALLYWHAMPUS splendid, fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SCRUM fine, excellent, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SCRUMDIFFEROUS very fine, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SCRUMDOODLE very fine, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SCRUMDUMPISH fine, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SLOBBERGULLUIOUS splendid, very fine, excellent …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SLOPERGLOBTIOUS fine, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SNIPTIOUS fine, attractive, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SPIFFY very fine, attractive, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SPLENDACIOUS splendid, excellent, first-rate …M19 sl.
– SPLENDESCENT splendid, gorgeous …1848
– SPLENDIDIOUS splendid, magnificent, brilliant, excellent, first-rate …1432-50 obs.
– SPLENDIDOUS splendid, excellent, first-rate …M19 sl.
– SPLENDIFEROUS splendid, fine, brilliant, gorgeous …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SPLENDIOUS splendid, very impressive, very good …1609 obs.
– SPONDICULOUS splendid, glorious, enjoyable …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– STUNNING stylish, splendid, excellent, very good …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SUMPTUOUS  of persons, etc.: spending largely, squandering, prodigal; hence, magnificent in equipment or way of living; extremely splendid …1538 obs.
– SUPERRUMDIFFEROUS splendid, fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SUPERSPADRATIC splendid, very fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SWELLDOODLE stylish, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SWELLELLEGOUS beautiful, elegant, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– TEARING impressive, splendid, first-rate …M17 sl.
– TOP-HOLE excellent; first-rate, splendid …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TOPPING excellent; first-rate, splendid …1822 Brit. sl.
– VALIANT of material things: fine, splendid …1604 obs.
– WALLY handsome, fine, pleasing, splendid; large, ample …1500-20 Sc.
– WALLY-DYE fine, splendid …1818 Sc.
– WHACKO THE DIDDLE-OH excellent, splendid, first-rate …1960s Aust. sl.
– WINGDINGING splendid …1960s African-American sl.
 
SPLENDID etc. – ADVERBS
– BREME splendidly, brilliantly, clearly; loudly, fiercely …a1000 obs.
– FAMOUSLY very well, splendidly; extremely, considerably …c1600 colloq.
– FARRANDLY pleasantly, handsomely, splendidly …c1325 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– FARRANTLY pleasantly, handsomely, splendidly …c1325 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RARELY unusually or remarkably well; finely, splendidly, beautifully …1590
– SUMPTUOUSLY splendidly, nobly …1750 rare
– WALLY finely, excellently, splendidly, well …1790 Sc.

SPLENDID etc. – INTERJECTIONS
– THAT BEATS CREATION! that’s splendid, incomparable …1834
– THAT LICKS CREATION! that’s splendid, incomparable …1834
 
SPLENDID etc. – NOUNS
– BEAUT something fine or splendid …1896 US sl.
– BELLAFATIMA something excellent or splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– CAT’S WHISKER, THE someone or something that is splendid or stylish; the height of excellence …1923 US sl.
– DINGER anything of a superlative character; something exceptional or striking; someone or something remarkable or superior; something splendid or stylish …1809
– DOODLE something fine, splendid, or pleasing …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– HUMDINGER a remarkable, excellent, or outstanding person or thing; something exciting or thrilling; something or someone very fine or splendid; a stylish person …1905 sl., orig. US
– LALLAPALOOSER something pleasing, splendid, stylish, or fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– LUX an excellent or splendid thing …c1840 Brit. sl.
– MAGNOLIOUSNESS the fact or quality of being magnificent, splendid, or large …M19 US sl.
– PEACHAMAROOT something very fine or splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PEACHAROONEY something splendid or fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PEACHERINE something fine or splendid; anything especially choice …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PEACHERINO something very fine or splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 
SPLENDID etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– BELLAFATIMA somebody excellent or splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– CAT’S WHISKER, THE someone or something that is splendid or stylish; the height of excellence …1923 US sl.
– HUMDINGER a remarkable, excellent, or outstanding person or thing; something exciting or thrilling; something or someone very fine or splendid; a stylish person …1905 sl., orig. US
– LALLAPALOOSER someone pleasing, splendid, stylish, or fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PEACHAMAROOT someone fine or splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PEACHERINE one who has attractive qualities; anything especially choice …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PEACHERINO someone very fine or splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RIP-SNORTER an excellent, splendid, or admirable person; an outstanding person …1842 colloq., orig. US

SPLENDOUR – NOUNS
– ostentatious splendour MARBLE COLOURS 1613 obs.
– splendour, glory DEARTH c1325 obs. rare
– splendour, magnificence, fine or gay appearance or show GALLANTRY 1613 obs.
– splendour, show; bravado BRAVERIE Bk1911 Sc.

SPLINTER, SPLINTERED – NOUNS
– ALAN MINTER a splinter …Brit. rhyming sl.
– FIR LICE minute splinters from fir bark …1977 Amer. dial.
– JAGS rags, tatters; splinters …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– SCALF a small splinter …1790 Ireland
– SHIVE a broken fragment or splinter of wood …1958 Amer. dial.
– SKILFER a small piece; a splinter …1597 obs. rare

SPLINTER etc. – VERBS
– BREAK INTO MATCHWOOD to break into minute splinters …1861
– TO-DRIVE to be splintered or shattered; to burst …c1205 obs.

SPLIT – ADJECTIVES
– ACLEFT cleft, split …c1425 obs. rare
– ASLAT of an earthen vessel, piece of furniture, etc.: cracked, split …1790 Eng. dial.

SPLIT – VERBS
– ACLEAVE to cleave or split …1460 obs. rare
– LAG to crack or split; used esp. of wood …1856 Eng. dial.
– RANE to cause to crack or split; to crack, to split …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– REAM to tear, to split open …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCAT to break to pieces; to burst, to split open; to smash; to slap, to beat …1891 Eng. dial.
– TING to crack, to split …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TO-CHINE to split asunder or open; to be burst or cloven …c725 obs.
– TO-CLEAVE to cleave asunder; to split open; to divide or separate into two parts …c888 obs.
– TO-DASH to split or burst asunder …c1305 obs.
– TO-SLENT to split, to burst …c1380 obs.

SPLURGE – NOUNS
– a splurge SPLUDGE Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.

SPLURGE – VERBS
– to splurge SPLUDGE Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.

SPLUTTER – VERBS
– to splutter BLUITER Bk1911 Sc.
– to splutter and stammer; to hesitate in speech HACKSLAVER B1900 Eng. dial.

SPOIL, SPOILED, SPOILING (ruin) – ADJECTIVES
– BLINKIT soured, spoiled …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOOGERED UP battered, spoiled, damaged; confused …1931 Amer. dial.
– BUGGERED UP battered, spoiled, damaged; confused …1931 Amer. dial.
– BUMMY spoiled, unfit for use …1931 Amer. dial.
– FERDARVA spoiled …1939 Amer. dial.
– FERDUTZT spoiled, botched, bungled …1985 Amer. dial.
– MARRED spoilt, injured …1611 obs.
– MUCKED UP in disarray. confused; spoiled …1996 US sl.
– MUFFED bungled; clumsily spoilt, missed …c1860 Brit. sl.
– RANK ruined, spoiled; gone awry …20C Amer. sl.
– TAINT spoiled, tainted …1934 Amer. dial.
– TAINTY tainted, spoiled …1966 Amer. dial.
 
SPOIL etc. (ruin) – NOUNS
– GOMICKSING UP spoiling by over-elaboration; messing up …1942 Amer. dial.
 
SPOIL etc. (ruin) – NOUNS, PERSON
– BAG BITER a spoiler or troublemaker …Bk1994 political sl. 
 
SPOIL etc. (ruin) – VERBS
– ADDLE to muddle; to confuse; to spoil, to make abortive …c1712
– ASS UP to botch, to spoil something; to mess up …1932 Amer. sl.
– BEDASH to injure or spoil by dashing, as the wind or rain dashes flowers …1594
– BLAD to spoil, to injure …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BLOTCH to spoil or ruin because of ineptness or stupidity …1965 Amer. dial.
– BLUE to make a mess of, to spoil, to ruin …1880 sl.
– BLUE IT to spoil anything …1958 US logging sl.
– BLUNK to bungle; to spoil a thing; to mismanage …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOBBLE to bungle, to botch, to spoil …1968 Amer. dial.
– BOOGER UP to damage, to spoil; to confuse, to disorder …1934 Amer. dial.
– BOSH to make of no effect; to spoil; to humbug …1870 sl.
– BREAK THE EGG IN A PERSON’S POCKET to spoil his plan …a1734
– BUGGER UP to ruin, to spoil; to damage; to make a mess of; to muddle, to mishandle …1891
– CANKER to begin to decay; to spoil; to become tainted …1953 Amer. dial.
– CARVE UP to spoil the chances of another’s business …1961 UK sl.
– COOK to ruin, to spoil …sl.
– CRAB to spoil or ruin or render impossible any plan of action …Bk1914 criminals’ sl.
– CRAB THE ACT to spoil things; to thwart someone’s plans; to interfere with someone or something …1906 Amer. sl.
– CROOL to spoil something, esp. to spoil a person’s chances …1899 Aust. sl.
– CROOL SOMEONE’S PITCH to spoil an opportunity for someone …Aust. sl.
– CRUEL to spoil something, esp. to spoil a person’s chances …1899 Aust. sl.
– CRUEL THE PITCH to spoil someone’s chances; to ruin an opportunity …1915 Aust. sl.
– CRUMB THE DEAL to spoil a plan or plot …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– DAISE to wither; to become rotten or spoiled from keeping, dampness, etc. …1825 Sc.
– DAMNIFY to become damaged; to spoil …1712 obs.
– DARK to spoil, esp. by behaving aggressively …1990s UK sl.
– DAWDLE to spoil, to mess, to bedabble …Bk1900 Sc.
– DEBAUCH to damage or spoil in quality …1633 obs.
– DISABUSE to mar, to spoil …Bk1900 Sc.
– DOLLYMOSH to demolish, to destroy, to entirely spoil …19C Eng. & Amer. dial.
– FALL APART AT THE SEAMS to be or become spoiled or ruined …1965 Amer. sl.
– FALL THROUGH to bungle, to blunder; to spoil, to prevent by mismanagement …1766 Sc.
– FASH to ruin, to spoil …1944 Amer. dial.
– FUTZ UP to spoil, to confound, to fuck up …1940s US euphemism
– GOOF UP to blunder, to spoil; to injure …1940s US sl.
– GUM THE GAME to interfere with the smooth running of something; to spoil, to wreck …1915
– GUM THE WORKS to interfere with the smooth running of something; to spoil, to wreck …1932
– GUM UP to ruin, to spoil, to throw into confusion; to wreck …1890 Amer. sl.
– GUM UP THE WORKS to ruin, to spoil, to throw into confusion …1890 Amer. sl.
ׇ– HASH to spoil, to damage; to destroy; to make a mess of …1773 Sc.
– JACK UP to put in a bad state or situation; to ruin, to spoil, to mess up …1870 colloq.
– JIM (UP) to spoil, to ruin, to damage …1913 Amer. dial.
– LEESE to destroy; to bring to ruin or perdition; to spoil …a1325 obs.
– LOUSE UP to spoil, to mess up …1934 sl.
– LUNCH to spoil, to ruin, to fail …1950s US college sl.
– MAGGLE to spoil by over-handling; to mangle; to spoil food by cutting and handling it too much during its preparation …1713 Sc.
– MAIG to spoil anything by over-handling it, to paw …1825 Sc.
– MALAGAROUSE to dishevel, to disarrange, to knock about; to spoil …1894 Sc.
– MALAGARUZE to dishevel, to disarrange, to knock about; to spoil …1894 Sc.
– MALAGRUIZE to dishevel, to disarrange, to knock about; to spoil …1894 Sc.
– MALLYGRUGGLE to spoil or crush …1919 Sc.
– MANK to maim, to mangle, to mutilate; to make defective; to impair, to spoil …a1400-50 obs. exc. Sc.
– MAR to become deteriorated; to spoil; to perish …c1230 obs.
– MARGULLIE to spoil, to destroy, to mangle; to mar any business …1721 Sc. obs.
– MARTYR to bungle, to mismanage, to confuse, to spoil; to work in a dirty and clumsy manner …c1450 obs. exc. Sc.
– MISCHIEVE to injure, to hurt, to damage; to spoil …1715 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MISGOOGLE to disfigure, to spoil, to mar; to handle roughly; to rumple …1742 Sc. 
– MISGRUGLE to disfigure, to spoil, to mar; to handle roughly; to rumple …1742 Sc. 
– MISGUGGLE to disfigure, to spoil, to mar; to handle roughly; to rumple …1742 Sc. 
– MISGUIDE to ill-use, to maltreat, to abuse, to spoil, to injure …1787 Sc. 
– MISMAGGLE to spoil., to mar; to disorder …1742 Sc. obs.
– MOMMUX to botch; to spoil in the making …1909 Amer. dial.
– MOMMUX UP to botch; to spoil in the making …1909 Amer. dial.
– MULL to spoil, to muddle …1862 Brit. colloq., orig. & chiefly athletics usage
– MUMMOCK to make a mess of, to spoil, to confuse …1950 Amer. dial.
– MURGULLIE to spoil, to destroy, to mangle; to mar any business …1721 Sc.
– NAFF IT UP to spoil something …1981 Brit. sl.
– NASTY UP to ruin or spoil …1965 Barbados sl.
– PACK to be ruined or spoiled; to become useless …c1920 motor-racers’ usage
– PAMPER to mess about to as to spoil a thing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PISS ON A PERSON’S CHIPS to spoil a person’s plans; to ruin or take the enjoyment from a person’s situation …1961 sl.
– PISS ON A PERSON’S PARADE to spoil a person’s plans; to ruin or take the enjoyment from a person’s situation …1984 sl.
– PLAY THE BEAR to damage, to spoil, to ruin …1888 Eng. dial.
– PLAY WHALEY to blunder, to fail; to play havoc with something; to spoil, to ruin; to make a mistake …1897 Amer. dial.
– PUKAROO to break; to spoil …1864 Anglo-Indian
– PUT A DAMPER ON to discourage; to dampen the enthusiasm of; to spoil another person’s pleasure; to have a depressing effect on …1748
– PUT A PERSON’S NOSE OUT OF JOINT to annoy, upset or disconcert a person; to spoil a person’s plans …1662
– PUT ONE’S FOOT IN IT to spoil something by some tactless blunder or remark …colloq.
– PUT THE CRAB ON to ruin or spoil …1930 US sl.
– QUAIL to spoil, to impair …1551 obs.
– QUEER to spoil, to put out of order …1812 sl.
– QUEER of a person: to spoil the reputation of; to spoil someone’s efforts or opportunities …1910s US sl.
– QUEER A PITCH to spoil a situation or a circumstance; to undermine someone’s efforts …1875 UK sl.
– QUEER THE ACT to interfere, to spoil or thwart someone’s plans …1910s US sl.
– RAIN ON SOMEONE’S PARADE to spoil something for someone …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
– ROT to spoil or ruin an action, plan, etc. …E20 sl.
– SCAM to injure, to crack; to spoil, to damage, to harm in some way, esp. of clothing …1866 Sc.
– SCAW to spoil or destroy the appearance of, esp. in respect of colour; to make shabby or faded …1772 Sc.
– SKAIL to rend, to spoil …1768 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. rare
– TACHE to blemish; to deface; to tarnish or spoil slightly by handling or use; to make the worse for wear …a1700 Sc.
– TAINT to become spoiled …1986 Amer. dial.
– TASH to soil, to tarnish, to stain, to dirty; to bespatter; to spoil slightly …1829 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAW to tumble about; to spoil by over-handling …Bk1905 Sc.
– TAWEN to spoil by overhandling …1810 Sc. obs.
– TEAR IT to spoil one’s chances; to put an end to one’s plans, etc. …20C sl.
– THRUST A PERSON’S NOSE OUT OF JOINT to annoy, upset or disconcert a person; to spoil a person’s plans …1581 obs.

SPOIL, SPOILED, SPOILING (pamper) – ADJECTIVES
– CADDLED indulged, spoiled …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CADE petted, indulged, spoiled; applied to lambs brought  up by hand, and hence to children …1790 Eng. dial.
– CADELY tame; accustomed to be petted, spoiled …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CADISH accustomed to be petted, spoiled …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CADY tame; accustomed to be petted, spoiled …1869 Eng. dial.
– DANDALIE spoiled by admiration; celebrated …1806 Sc.
– DANDILLY petted, pampered, spoiled by too much admiration …1500-20 Sc.
– DELTING spoiling with kindness …1804 Sc.
– DELTIT spoiled with kindness …B1900 Sc.
– DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous …a1605 Sc.
– ILL-MARRED badly spoiled …1894 Eng. dial.
– MAMMIFIED of children: spoiled, petted …B1900 Eng. dial.
– MARDISH somewhat spoiled …1886 Eng. dial.
– MARDY spoiled, petted, over-indulged; pettish, peevish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MARRED of a child spoilt, peevish …1790 rare exc. Eng. dial.
– MAUNGY spoiled, petted, pampered; cross, peevish, ill-tempered; complaining …1865 Eng. dial.
– TINT of a child: spoiled, petted …Bk1905 Sc.
– UNFORBIDDEN unrestrained, unruly, disobedient, spoiled, troublesome …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– VINNY nervous; affected; of a child: spoiled …1873 Eng. dial.

SPOIL etc. (pamper) – NOUNS
– BESSYBABISHNESS the whimpering of a spoiled child …1891 Eng. dial.

SPOIL etc. (pamper) – NOUNS, PERSON
– BAGEL a spoiled, wealthy, upper-class (Jewish) young man …1981 S. Afr. sl. 
– BESSY-BAB;  BESSY-BABS a petted, spoiled child; a child who cries for little cause …1842 Eng. dial.
– CADE a spoiled, pampered or petted child …1877 now Eng. & Amer. dial.
– CADE-CHILD one that has been brought up with excessive care and tenderness
– DAINTY a person who is coddled or made a pet of …1892 Eng. dial.
– DALLY-LAW a spoiled child, a darling …1867 Eng. dial.
– DALT a spoiled child …1828 Sc. & Ireland
– DANDILLY a woman spoiled by admiration; one conceited of her personal appearance; a vain woman; a pet, a darling …1697 Sc.
– DANDLING a dandled child; a pet, a spoiled child …1611 obs. or Eng. dial.
– GANGRILL-GYPE a spoiled child …1911 Sc.
– GARLACH a little rascal; an impish youngster; a spoiled child …1930 Sc. 
– KADDIE an ill-natured or mischievous person; a spoiled child …1866 Sc.
– LALL-TIT a spoiled child …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LOLL-POOP a pet; a spoiled child; a wheedling, coaxing child …B1900 Eng. dial.
– LOMEY a spoiled child …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
– MAMMIEKEEKIE a spoil, indulged child …1923 Sc.
– MAMMOTHREPT a child brought up by its grandmother; hence, a spoiled child …1599 obs.
– MAMMY-GOG a spoiled child; a foolish, stupid person …1884 Eng. dial.
– MAMMY-SUCK a spoiled child; a foolish, stupid person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAM’S FOUT the mother’s favourite child; a spoiled, petted child …1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MAM’S LOON a boy spoilt and excessively cherished by his mother …1962 Sc.
– MAM’S PET the mother’s favourite child; a spoiled, petted child …1721 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MARDY a spoiled child …1874 Eng. dial.
– MOCKEEN a pet, a spoiled child …Bk1997 Ireland
– MOTHER BAIRN a spoiled child …1889 Eng. dial.
– MOTHER’S BAIRN a child that resembles its mother; a spoiled child …1896 Sc. rare
– MOTHER’S FOUT a petted, spoiled, peevish child …1825 Sc.
– MOTHER’S PET a spoiled or delicate child …1819
– MOTHER’S SON a son who is spoiled by his mother …1882 obs. rare
– NESTLE-COCK the last-hatched bird, or weakling of a brood; hence, a mother’s pet; a spoiled or delicate child or youth …1626 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PETTY-BAB a spoiled child or person …1891 Eng. dial.
– SCONE a mollycoddled or spoiled boy …1969 Sc.
– TANTREL an idle, spoilt girl …Bk1869 Eng. dial.
– THRAWN-DAYS a spoiled, petted child …1824 Sc.
– TIDDY-DOLL a spoiled, babyish, dressed-up girl or woman; a slattern, a woman who is not domesticated …Bk1905 Eng. dial. 
– TIDLING a pampered or spoiled child; a darling, a pet; a young, delicate, or puny child or animal in need of special care; a weakling …1520 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– VUDDLES a spoiled child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WAG-WANTON a dissolute person; a wanton; a spoiled child or person …1601 obs.
– WANTON a person, esp. a child, spoiled by over-indulgence and excessive leniency; a spoiled child, a pampered pet …1526 obs.
– WHITE-HEN’S CHICK a spoiled or petted child …1786 Eng. dial.
– WHITE SON a beloved or favourite son; a boy or man who is specially favoured or indulged …1539 obs.

SPOIL etc. (pamper) – VERBS
– CADE to pet, to fondle, to indulge, to spoil …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CARRY ONE ON A CHIP to treat very well; to pamper; to spoil …1933 Amer. dial.
– DALLY to pet, to indulge, to spoil …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FADDLE to make much of a child; to spoil …1688 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– FEATHER to pamper, to spoil, to treat well; to curry favour with …1939 Amer. dial.
– HARBOUR to pet, to spoil, to make much of …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAR to spoil a child by indulgence …1530 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MARD UP to be spoiled; to pet, to caress …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MARDY to spoil, to indulge …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MARDY UP to spoil, to indulge …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MESS OVER to make much of, to spoil, to pamper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MESS UP to make much of, to spoil, to pamper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MESS WITH to make much of, to spoil, to pamper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VUDDLE to spoil a child by petting …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

SPOILS – NOUNS
– spoils, plunder, booty FANG 1016 obs. exc. Sc.

SPOILSPORT – NOUNS, PERSON
– ADDLE-PLOT a spoilsport who ‘addles’ the ‘plot’s or plans of others …L17 sl.
– ADDLE-POT a spoilsport; a mar-all …Bk1890 sl.
– BUZZ CRUNCHER a person or thing that destroys a feeling of euphoria; a killjoy or spoilsport …1980s US college sl.
– BUZZ-CRUSHER someone or something that ruins or dampens one’s pleasure …1980s Amer. student sl.
– BUZZ-KILL someone or something that ruins or dampens one’s pleasure …1980s Amer. student sl.
– BUZZ STRIPPER a person or thing that destroys a feeling of euphoria; a killjoy or spoilsport …1980s US college sl.
– DAMPER a person or thing that depresses, takes the edge off joy, chills one’s enthusiasm, etc.; a spoilsport; a we-blanket …1748 sl.
– DEAD NARK a spoilsport …20C Aust. sl.
– GABRIEL a puritan, a killjoy, a ‘bible-thumper’ …1930s African-American sl.
– GRINCH a spoilsport or killjoy …L20 N. Amer. colloq.
– LET-GAME a hinderer of pleasure, a spoilsport …c1374 obs.
– MOLDY FIG a spoilsport …1960s Amer. sl.
– NARK a spoilsport …1918 Aust. sl.
– OLD POKE a spoilsport …1930s US sl.
– PARTY POOP a spoilsport, one who sabotages the pleasures and enjoyments of their companions, whether at a party or other amusement …1950s sl., orig. US
– PARTY POOPER a spoilsport, one who sabotages the pleasures and enjoyments of their companions, whether at a party or other amusement …1950s sl., orig. US
– SAD KECKS a term of contempt for a killjoy …1999 UK sl.
– TEAPOT SUCKER a teetotaller or other spoilsport; one who suppresses every form of amusement …1900 UK sl.
– TRANK a person who takes the excitement out of something; a killjoy …1979 US sl.
– WET BLANKET a person who dampens and smothers all enthusiasm; a person who prevents fun; a killjoy; a pessimist …1879 Amer. sl.
– WOWSER a person very puritanical in morals; a spoilsport; one who neither swears, drinks, nor smokes …c1895 Aust colloq.

SPOKESPERSON – NOUNS, PERSON
– BALDOBER; BALDOVER; BALDOWER a boss, a leader, a spokesman …1889 UK criminals’ sl.
– MOUTH a person who speaks on behalf of another or of others; a spokesperson …1563 rare
– MOUTH ORGAN a spokesman …1881 US sl.
– MOUTHPIECE a person who speaks on behalf of another or others; a person who gives official or public expression to common opinion or sentiment; a spokesperson …1776
– ORATOR one who pleads or argues in favour of a person or cause; an advocate, a spokesman …c1374 obs.
– PARANYMPH a person who supports or solicits for another; an advocate, spokesperson, or orator who speaks on behalf of another …1593
– VAUNTPARLER one who speaks for or on behalf of others; a spokesman …1534 obs.
– WAG a spokesperson or commentator …Bk1994 US political news sl.