Splay

Pronunciation

• enPR: splā, IPA: /spleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Origin

From Middle English, an abbreviated form of display.

Full definition of splay

Verb

1. To display; to spread.
• Gascoigneour ensigns splayed
2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

Adjective

1. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
• M. ArnoldSomething splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.

Noun

1. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

Anagrams

• palsy
• plays