spiel
noun
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Pronunciation: /spiːl/ / /ʃpiːl/
noun
Etymology: From the Scots spiel (“game, play; curling match”) from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spel.
- A game of curling.
“The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards”
“On the Dock and Greensands the classical discus, or quoit, has in season due its modicum of disciples, (b) When the Nith is frozen over its surface becomes the scene of many a curling spiel”
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil. Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.
- To talk at length.
“For a second our eyes met and he gave me a contemptuous smile, then he spieled again.”
“[…] Oedipa spotted among searchlights and staring crowds a KCUF mobile unit, with her husband Mucho inside it, spieling into a microphone.”
- To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.