Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. · A kick; a blow with the foot. · Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. · A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. · To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. · To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) · To kick or toss up the heels.
From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnaną (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spernō (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread.
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