spilth

• “The earliest known use of "spilth" is in Shakespeare's”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “This suffix comes to us from Old English and is used to indicate an act or process (as in "spilth" or the more familiar "growth") or a state or condition (as in "breadth" or "length").”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “spilth" of St Monday formed the entire demand of Tuesday.”

  Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, May 15, 1864 (In Which He Discusses His Brother, Leonard, Who was Killed a Few Weeks Later at Cold Harbor)

• “spilth," combines the verb "spill" with a suffix ( "- age," this time borrowed from Old French) that can indicate an act or process.”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “The dizzying stench of the six-foot-high city-block-long banks of spilth, a foul miasma of garbage, excrement, and animal parts—and the maddening hum of a million blowflies. . .”

  Simon & Schuster: The Curse of the Wendigo

• “She gives us words such as “spilth,” “spelth,” “splints,” “spiles,” and “spatch.””

  Djuna Barnes

• “  And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall —   Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine”

  Agamemnon

• “Pah! the house fumes with stench and spilth of blood.”

  Agamemnon

• “Golf leads to muscular ideals among women, and muscular ideals lead to romance, to the "spilth of blood" and "the horrid din of the swashbuckler swashing on his buckler.”

  The Novel's Deadliest Friend

• “His foot slipped in the spilth of wine, and the huge body went down like an oak, the head of it striking one leg of the table.”

  Chivalry

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