different between spies vs spiel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

spies

1. plural of spy

Verb

spies

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spy

Anagrams

• Seips, Sipes, pisés, sipes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch spiesse, from Middle High German spiez, from Old High German spioz, from Proto-Germanic *speutaz. Cognate to spit and spiet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spis/
• Hyphenation: spies
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

spies f (plural spiesen, diminutive spiesje n)

1. spike, long spear, pike
2. skewer

   Synonym: spit

Derived terms

• barbecuespies
• braadspies
• kebabspies
• spiesgezel
• steekspies
• vleesspies
• werpspies

English

Alternative forms

• shpeal, schpeal
• shpiel, schpiel
• schpeel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi?l/, /?pi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) and/or Yiddish ?????? (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil.Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.

Noun

spiel (countable and uncountable, plural spiels)

1. A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
2. (music) An early form of rap music.
   • 1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Howell Book House ?ISBN

     Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering."

   • 2007, Jocelyne Cesari, Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, Greenwood Pub Group ?ISBN

     A typical Last Poets song consisted of a "spiel," an early form of rap where song verses were spoken over conga drum percussions or jazz music.

   • 2007, Mickey Hess, Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture, ABC-CLIO ?ISBN, page 17

     Drawing on the smooth and steady rap style of disco DJs, the proto-rap spiel of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, various other American and African American oral traditions (including, as mentioned above, radio disc jockey practice) […]

Translations

Verb

spiel (third-person singular simple present spiels, present participle spieling, simple past and past participle spieled)

1. (intransitive) To talk at length.
2. (intransitive) To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.

Derived terms

• spieler

Etymology 2

From the Scots spiel (“game, play; curling match”) from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spel.

Noun

spiel (plural spiels)

1. A game of curling.
   • 1890, John Kerr, History of curling ... and fifty years of the Royal Caledonian curling club

     The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards

   • 1972, William M'Dowall, A. E. Truckell, History of the burgh of Dumfries

     On the Dock and Greensands the classical discus, or quoit, has in season due its modicum of disciples, (b) When the Nith is frozen over its surface becomes the scene of many a curling spiel

   • 1989, Morris Kenneth Mott, John Allardyce, Curling Capital, Univ. of Manitoba Press ?ISBN, page 13

     A few organizational difficulties marred this spiel and the next, but thereafter most of the wrinkles were ironed out.

Derived terms

• bonspiel

References

Anagrams

• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Piles, Siple, piles, plies, pliés, slipe, spile