SPANIELIZE also SPANIELIZE IT and SPANNIOLIZE, SPANNIOLIZE IT VERB to act like a spaniel; to be submissive or fawning - 1641 rare ETYMOLOGY from spaniel (n.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1641 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...To his MistrisseI cannot pray you in a studied stile, Nor speak words distant from my heart a mile; I cannot visit Hide-parke every day, And with a hackney court my time away; I cannot spanniolize it weeke by week, Or waite a moneth to kisse your hand or cheek; If when you'r lov'd you cannot love againe, Why doe but say so, I am out of paine..." From: Wits Recreations. Selected from the Finest Fancies of Moderne Muses - George Herbert, William Marshall (engraver)
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