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語源 1

From Scots spurtle, spurtill (“potstick, spatula”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of 中期英語 spatyl, spatule, from Old French espatule (“spatula”). If so, then doublet of spattle and spatula.

名詞

spurtle (plural spurtles)

1. Either of two Scottish kitchen implements made of wood: a flat one for turning oatcakes, or a stick for stirring porridge.
   • 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 311:

     One day they built a fire in the yard and made a black kettle of apple butter so big that when they stood over it and stirred the apple mash with spurtles, the scene put Ada in mind of the witches in Macbeth working at their brew.

語源 2

From spurt +‎ -le. According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by poet Michael Drayton in 1606.

動詞

spurtle (third-person singular simple present spurtles, present participle spurtling, simple past and past participle spurtled)

1. To spurt, spatter or sputter; to spurt in a scattering manner.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 29:

     Upon the head hee lent so violent a stroke,
     That the poore emptie skull, like some thin potsheard broke,
     The braines and mingled blood, were spertled on the wall

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989)
• The Poly-Olbion project

アナグラム

• spurlet, Purtles