different between peel vs speel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?l/
  • IPA^(key): [p?i??], [p?i??]
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophone: peal

Etymology 1

From Middle English pelen itself from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier, both from Latin pil?, pil?re (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.

   I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
2. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

   I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.

   We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.

3. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

   I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.

4. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.

   The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.

5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).

   The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.

Synonyms

• (remove outer covering): skin, strip
• (remove clothing): disrobe, strip

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

peel (countable and uncountable, plural peels)

1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
2. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
3. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
4. (countable) A spatula-like device to remove bread or pizza from an oven.

Synonyms

• (skin of a fruit): rind, zest

Derived terms

• orange peel
• peel strength

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English peel, pele, from Anglo-Norman pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin palus (“stake”). Doublet of pole.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. (obsolete) A stake.
2. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
3. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

Derived terms

• peel-house, peelhouse
• peel-tower

Etymology 3

From Old French pele (modern French pelle), from Latin p?la, from the base of plangere (“fix, plant”). Doublet of pala.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
3. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.

Translations

Etymology 4

Origin unknown.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
2. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (curling) To play a peel shot.

Etymology 5

Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

Etymology 6

Old French piller (“pillage”).

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

Etymology 7

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”)

Etymology 8

Verb

peel

1. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
   • 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,

     Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;

   • 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1,

     The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled, bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.

   • 2006, Miles Richardson, Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place, Louisiana State University Press, ?ISBN, pages 230–231,

     As the tiny Virgin... approaches one of the barrio churches, bells peel vigorously, a brass band launches into a fast-paced tune, and large rockets zoom... .

Anagrams

• LEEP, Leep, Lepe, Pele, leep

Wolof

Noun

peel

1. shovel

English

Alternative forms

• speil, spele, speal, spiel, spael

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Scots speill (“to climb”), of obscure origin. From or akin to Old Scots spelare (“acrobat, tumbler”). Probably from Middle Dutch spelen (“to play, walk a tight rope, do gymnastic tricks, juggle, perform as an actor or clown”), see spiel. Alternately, representing a continuation of Middle English spilen, from Old English spilian (“to play”).

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

1. (dialect, Scottish and Northern English) To climb.
   • 1832 March 5, Memoirs of a Paisley Baillie, The Day: A Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashions, &c., Glasgow, page 218,

     This I thocht at the time when he was speeling up the ladder before me in the Hie Kirk steeple ; but good breeding, at that particular time, keeped me from taking ony correck view of how things stood in that quarter.

   • 1841, Humorous Traits of an Old Highland Gentleman, Chambers? Edinburgh Journal, Volume 9, Numbers 317-318, page 94,

     They were catched speeling up the lamp-posts and taking oot the cruizes and drinking the ulye, wick and a?.

   • 1860, Hugh MacDonald, Days at the Coast: A Series of Sketches Descriptive of the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow, page 255,

     There is a comfortable inn at this picturesque spot, where those who purpose speeling the lofty Ben generally prepare for their arduous undertaking.

Etymology 2

From English dialectal speel (“talk; lingo; patter”), short for bonspiel. Related to spiel.

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

1. To talk at length, to spiel.
   • 1972, Sven Berlin, Pride of the Peacock: The Evolution of an Artist, page 91,

     Old Saxon, who was so sweet and gentle despite his long years on the halls, smiled at me and suggested I should do some speeling. Yedo gave me a megaphone. I held it to my mouth but there was silence.

   • 1973, Irene Baird, Waste Heritage, Macmillan of Canada, page 262,

     “I must close now or I shall go on speeling all night. […] ”

Etymology 3

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

1. (dialect, Australia) To run.

Etymology 4

Probably from Afrikaans speel. Compare Middle English spel (“a story; tale; narrative”). Doublet of spell and shpiel.

Noun

speel (plural speels)

1. (chiefly South Africa) A story; a spiel.

Etymology 5

Possibly related to spile.

Alternative forms

• spool (dialectal, obsolete)

Noun

speel (plural speels)

1. (dialect) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.

Etymology 6

Perhaps continuing Middle English spilen (“to revel, play”), from Old English spilian (“to revel, play”), from Proto-West Germanic *spil?n. Cognate with Dutch spelen (“to play”), German spielen (“to play”), Luxembourgish spillen (“to play”), Icelandic spila (“to play”), Faroese spæla (“to play”), Swedish spela (“to play”), Danish spille (“to play”), Norwegian spille (“to play”).

Verb

speel (third-person singular simple present speels, present participle speeling, simple past and past participle speeled)

1. (dialectal, rural, Northern England, Scotland) To lake, play, sport, take amusement.

Derived terms

• spieler
• ba-spiel

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The English dialect dictionary

Etymology 7

From Proto-West Germanic *spil (“dance, game”).

Noun

speel (plural speels)

1. (dialectal, rural, Northern England, Scotland) A game.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, peels, sleep

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• speul (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch spelen, from Middle Dutch sp?len, from Old Dutch *spilon, from Proto-West Germanic *spil?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp???l/

Verb

speel (present speel, present participle spelende, past participle gespeel)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to play

Derived terms

• speler

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l

Verb

speel

1. first-person singular present indicative of spelen
2. imperative of spelen

Anagrams

• sleep, slepe, spele