different between spilth vs spilt

English

Etymology

From spill +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

spilth (plural spilths)

1. (archaic) A spillage; spilled material.
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

     Like 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.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor.

English

Alternative forms

• spilled (mainly US)

Etymology

From spill +? -t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Adjective

spilt (not comparable)

1. That has been spilt.

   Don't cry over spilt milk; tears won't put it back in the glass.

Verb

spilt

1. (chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spill

See also

• don't cry over spilt milk

Anagrams

• Split, slipt, split, stilp

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

spilt

1. past participle of spille