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Spight vs Speight - What's the difference?

spight | speight |

As nouns the difference between spight and speight

is that spight is or spight can be while speight is (bird) a woodpecker.

spight

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
  • , passage=Her doubtfull words made that redoubted knight Suspect her truth: yet since no' untruth he knew, Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight 475 He would not shend; but said, Deare dame I rew, That for my sake unknowne such griefe unto you grew. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1706, author=Various, title=The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony= Responses from Men, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=When I found Cuckolds to Encrease apace, I Marry'd one with such an Ugly Face That one wou'd thought the Devil wou'd but grotch So foul a Figure as my Wife to touch; Yet being at a Friendly Club one Night, A Raskal came and Cuckol'd me for spight . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1768, author=Susannah Minific Gunning, title=Barford Abbey, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=--Nothing did I enjoy on the road;--in spight of my endeavours, tears stream'd from my eyes incessantly;--even the fine prospects that courted attention, pass'd unnotic'd. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1789, author=Hester Lynch Piozzi, title=Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=There was music; and the door being left at jar, as we call it, I watched the wretched servant who staid in the antichamber, and found that he was listening in spight of sorrow and starving. }}

    speight

    English

    Alternative forms

    *(l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (bird) a woodpecker.