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Spiel

noun

Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson). Synonyms: line of gab, patter.

verb

Replay (as a melody). Synonym: play. "She played the third movement very beautifully"

Speak at great length (about something).

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"Spiel" Quotes from Famous Books

... in to say 'Howdy' to Mr. Standish. Nobody was around. So I made bold to pick up the fiddle and have a little spiel. I ain't done any harm, and there's nothing you-all ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... up, Shluker!" It was the Pug now, a curious whispering sibilancy in his voice, due no doubt to the disfigurement of his lips. "Give Pinkie a chance to shoot his spiel before youse injure yerself throwin' a fit! ...

— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard

... hair. And they showed me into a shiny room, just him and her and me, And the Prince he was pleased and friendly-like, and he calls for drinks for three. And I shows them my battered biscuit-tin, and I makes my modest spiel, And they laughed, they did, when I opened the lid, ...

— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service

... our news together," suggested the other cheerfully. "You tell them you think Weaver is in her room, and I'll tell them my little spiel." ...

— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine

... as long as you're sayin' it," said Chip skeptically; "but jest to prove it, supposin' you take the bit in your teeth an' spiel off one o' these ...

— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield