spulzie

• spuilzie, spulye, spulyie, spuilyie

Compare spoil.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspʌlji/, (spelling pronunciation) /ˈspʌlzi/

spulzie (countable and uncountable, plural spulzies)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) plunder; booty
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners

spulzie (third-person singular simple present spulzies, present participle spulzieing, simple past and past participle spulzied)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To plunder.

• “spulzie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.