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spiel

[speel, shpeel]

noun

  1. a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.



verb (used without object)

  1. to speak extravagantly.

spiel

/ ʃ辱ː /

noun

  1. a glib plausible style of talk, associated esp with salesmen

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (intr) to deliver a prepared spiel

  2. to recite (a prepared oration)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ˈ辱 noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spiel1

First recorded in 1890–95; (for the noun) from German Spiel or Yiddish shpil “play, game”; (for the verb) from German spielen or Yiddish shpiln “to play, gamble”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spiel1

C19: from German Spiel play
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With “The Phoenician Scheme,” Anderson is celebrating the art of the spiel, the capitalism that artists are supposed to be against.

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Here, we see the Muppets, also celebrating a 70th anniversary, try and fail to give a safety spiel.

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He has long integrated assertions about a third term into his political spiel.

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The playoff music, meant to signal winners to wrap up their spiels, began playing more than halfway into Brody’s speech.

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"The spiel that I'm reading from people saying how off it we are. We won two games on the bounce and you're upset about it, I don't get it."

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