spanghew
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspæŋ.hjuː/
Verb
spanghew (third-person singular simple present spanghews, present participle spanghewing, simple past and past participle spanghewed)
- (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, rare, said especially of frogs and toads) To strike and cause to fly in the air.
- ‘to inflate a frog and bowl it across the surface of a pond’[1]
References
- English Dialect Dictionary, 1905