Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Thick; close; dense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Thick; crowded; compact; dense.

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  • adjective obsolete thick; compact; dense; crowded

Etymologies

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Latin spissus.

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Examples

  • L-istess jista ` jinghad ghall-Parlament Ewropew fejn dak li jahdmu ghalih il-Parlamentari Ewropej ta 'spiss ikun differenti sahansitra oppost minn dak li jkun qieghed jaspira c-cittadin Ewropew.

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  • L-istess jista ` jinghad ghall-Parlament Ewropew fejn dak li jahdmu ghalih il-Parlamentari Ewropej ta 'spiss ikun differenti sahansitra oppost minn dak li jkun qieghed jaspira c-cittadin Ewropew.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • Nies bhal Mark u oġra qed jaghmlu hsara kbira lil-Knisja ghax nies lajci meta titkellem maghhom qed ta spiss jikkwotawhom.

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  • Membri tal-kleru it-tip ta Mark Montebello u oħrajn li ta spiss jesprimu ruhom kontra it-taghlim tal-knisja ghandhom jigu ċ-censurati darba għal dejjem.

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  • And the best part of it is that Goalaa can’t say spiss to the police or anyone else, or they get their operation scanned and probed.”

    Trouble Magnet Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2006

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