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Spate
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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- The bombs ignited an unprecedented spate of sectarian bloodletting.
- The emergence of these candidates has coincided with a spate of local disturbances in different parts of the country.
- The case is only one of the latest in a spate of similar prosecutions and investigations.
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Word Origin & History
spate
early 15c., originally Scottish and northern English, "a sudden flood, especially one caused by heavy rains or a snowmelt," of unknown origin. Perhaps from O.Fr. espoit "flood," from Du. spuiten "to flow, spout;" related to spout. Figurative sense of "unusual quantity" is attested from 1610s.
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