Citations:byspel

English citations of byspel

an example

• 2011, Michael Everson, The Oxford English Dictionary on eð:

  I don't like using ð for most words at the beginning of the word simply because ð looks like a d and huru Ð looks like a D and would encourage people using the “d” instead of “th” for byspel: “dat” instead of “that” … and others.

• 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:

  For byspel, there will be no more write-offs for children and no more write-offs for interest payments on mortgages.

• 2015, Prashant Mishra, The Immortal Death:

  I confronted my little dream quite amusingly while he set a perfect parental byspel (example) by hearing me out with his sublime expressions, and as I finished my bit with a collective lot of sighs; 'It was just a bad dream.'

a family outcast; bastard

• 1866 (1874), Sidney Gilpin, The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland:

  Thou byspel, I'll shoot.

• 2001, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:

  "The byspel of his rich and landed clan, young Norton lived alone in a shed, by the woods on the edge of the estate. [...]"