Meanings
plural spilths
- archaiccountableuncountableSpillage; spilled material.
Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor.
1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked2 more examples
I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!
1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip.
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with spilth
All rhymes →Cite this entry
spilth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spilth
“spilth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spilth. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spilth,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spilth.
Source: spilth on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.