spaulty, a. dial.
(ˈspɔːltɪ)
Also spoalty, spoulty.
[f. spalt a. + -y1.]
Dry and brittle.
| 1895 J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk xix. 266 When turnips are hard and brittle..they are said to be spoalty, which William Ellis (1750) spells spalt, and Professor Skeat notes as a Cambridge-Shire word. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 643/1 Them turnips is spoulty. 1906 Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 238 Did he promise me a set of iron cramps or ties for the roof? They never came to hand, or else they were spaulty or cracked. |