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Online games & mobile games offer limitless fun! Play the most popular free games around by Zynga - Farmville, Hit it Rich, Zynga Poker and many more! Spiel definition, a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• shpeal, schpeal
• shpiel, schpiel

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /spiːl/, /ʃpiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from GermanSpiel(“game, performance”) and/or Yiddishשפּיל‎ (shpil), both from Middle High Germanspil, from Old High Germanspil, from Proto-West Germanic*spil.Cognate with Old Englishspilian(“to revel, play”). See speel.

Noun[edit]

spiel (countable and uncountable, pluralspiels)

1. A lengthy and extravagantspeech or argument usually intended to persuade.
   • 1910, Irving Berlin (lyrics and music), “Dear Mayme, I Love You”:

     I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel / But three little words can explain how I feel

   • 1939 May, Theodore Roethke, “The Auction”, in Poetry Magazine‎^[1]:

     The spiel ran on; the sale was brief and brisk; / The bargains fell to bidders, one by one. / Hope flushed my cheekbones with a scarlet disk.

2. (music) An early form of rap music.
   • 1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Howell Book House →ISBN

     Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on 'Me & You, Remembering.'

   • 2007, Jocelyne Cesari, Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, Greenwood Pub Group →ISBN

     A typical Last Poets song consisted of a 'spiel,' an early form of rap where song verses were spoken over conga drum percussions or jazz music.

   • 2007, Mickey Hess, Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture, ABC-CLIO →ISBN, page 17

     Drawing on the smooth and steady rap style of disco DJs, the proto-rap spiel of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, various other American and African American oral traditions (including, as mentioned above, radio disc jockey practice) […]

Translations[edit]

Dutch: breedsprakerig verhaal, donderpreek(nl) Finnish: hehkutus(fi) French: boniment(fr)m German: langes Gereden, Schwafeleif, Geschwafel(de)n

Italian: tiriteraf, sproloquio(it)m Portuguese: conversa fiadaf Russian: красноречиваяисторияf, призывнаяречьf Spanish: perorata(es)f, parrafadaf(colloquial) Swedish: svada(sv)c

Verb[edit]

spiel (third-person singular simple presentspiels, present participlespieling, simple past and past participlespieled)

1. (intransitive) To talk at length.
2. (intransitive) To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From the Scotsspiel(“game, play; curling match”)^[1] from Middle Dutch or Middle Low Germanspel.

Noun[edit]

spiel (pluralspiels)

1. A game of curling.
   • 1890, John Kerr, History of curling ... and fifty years of the Royal Caledonian curling club

     The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards

   • 1972, William M'Dowall, A. E. Truckell, History of the burgh of Dumfries

     On the Dock and Greensands the classical discus, or quoit, has in season due its modicum of disciples, (b) When the Nith is frozen over its surface becomes the scene of many a curling spiel

   • 1989, Morris Kenneth Mott, John Allardyce, Curling Capital, Univ. of Manitoba Press →ISBN, page 13

     A few organizational difficulties marred this spiel and the next, but thereafter most of the wrinkles were ironed out.

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ 'Spiel n., v.'. Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 2 November 2020.

Anagrams[edit]

• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Piles, Siple, piles, plies, pliés, slipe, spile

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spiel

(spēl, shpēl)Informaln.intr. & tr.v.spieled, spiel·ing, spiels

spiel

(ʃpiːl) nvb

spiel

(spil, ʃpil)
n. Informal.v.i.

spiel

Past participle: spieled
Gerund: spieling

Imperative
spiel
spiel

Present
I spiel
you spiel
he/she/it spiels
we spiel
you spiel
they spiel

Preterite
I spieled
you spieled
he/she/it spieled
we spieled
you spieled
they spieled

Present Continuous
I am spieling
you are spieling
he/she/it is spieling
we are spieling
you are spieling
they are spieling

Present Perfect
I have spieled
you have spieled
he/she/it has spieled
we have spieled
you have spieled
they have spieled

Past Continuous
I was spieling
you were spieling
he/she/it was spieling
we were spieling
you were spieling
they were spieling

Past Perfect
I had spieled
you had spieled
he/she/it had spieled
we had spieled
you had spieled
they had spieled

Future
I will spiel
you will spiel
he/she/it will spiel
we will spiel
you will spiel
they will spiel

Future Perfect
I will have spieled
you will have spieled
he/she/it will have spieled
we will have spieled
you will have spieled
they will have spieled

Future Continuous
I will be spieling
you will be spieling
he/she/it will be spieling
we will be spieling
you will be spieling
they will be spieling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been spieling
you have been spieling
he/she/it has been spieling
we have been spieling
you have been spieling
they have been spieling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been spieling
you will have been spieling
he/she/it will have been spieling
we will have been spieling
you will have been spieling
they will have been spieling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been spieling
you had been spieling
he/she/it had been spieling
we had been spieling
you had been spieling
they had been spieling

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Conditional
I would spiel
you would spiel
he/she/it would spiel
we would spiel
you would spiel
they would spiel

Past Conditional
I would have spieled
you would have spieled
he/she/it would have spieled
we would have spieled
you would have spieled
they would have spieled

Noun	1.	spiel - plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) line of gab, patter communication channel, channel, line - (often plural) a means of communication or access; 'it must go through official channels'; 'lines of communication were set up between the two firms'
Verb	1.	spiel - replay (as a melody); 'Play it again, Sam'; 'She played the third movement very beautifully' re-create - create anew; 'Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale' misplay - play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note fiddle - play on a violin; 'Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely' play - play on an instrument; 'The band played all night long' prelude - play as a prelude rag - play in ragtime; 'rag that old tune' reprise, reprize, recapitulate, repeat - repeat an earlier theme of a composition slur - play smoothly or legato; 'the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata' bang out - play loudly; 'They banged out `The star-spangled banner' modulate - change the key of, in music; 'modulate the melody' tongue - articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
2.	spiel - speak at great length (about something) talk, speak - exchange thoughts; talk with; 'We often talk business'; 'Actions talk louder than words'

spiel

spiel

verbInformal. To talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially:

spiel

[spiːl]N (= speech) → arengaf, discursom; [of salesman etc] → rollom, materialmpublicitario
it's just his usual spiel → es el mismocuentode siempre

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