spurtle

spurtle · noun¹

1. Old French · derived fromespatule“spatula”
2. Middle English · inherited fromspatyl
3. Scots · borrowed fromspurtle
4. English todayspurtle

From Scots spurtle, spurtill (“potstick, spatula”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English spatyl, spatule, from Old French espatule (“spatula”). If so, then doublet of spattle and spatula.

spurtle · verb²

From spurt + -le. According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by poet Michael Drayton in 1606.