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English Alternative forms en splosion Etymology en explosion. Noun en explosion. en The Two Brides, or, The French Château and the English Home F. Baldwen London James Blackwood, Paternoster Row 1859 182 https://books.google.com/books?id=jYhrkxcNGrcC&dq=%22splosions%22&pg=PA182 Such crashes all of a sudden, and ’splosions that would frighten any man alive, let alone a woman; and what’s worse than all put together, I believe they murder all the hinnocent cats and dogs that ever they catches. en The Amen Corner, and Other Poems 1897 Louis Eisenbeis West Chester, PA F. S. Hickman The Infidels of Buncombe 102 https://archive.org/details/amencornerotherp00eise/page/102/mode/2up?q=splosion I tell you, Ruth, ’twas like a shot, a boombshell, within doubtin, / Whose ’splosion made the timbers fly, an set 'em all to poutin. en The Crutch Book of the Royal Blue 1905 September VIII 12 24 https://archive.org/details/bookofroyalblue03balt/page/n433/mode/2up?q=splosion “Yassum, I guess it wasn’t,” said the Little Bit of a Girl. “But that ain’t the funny part. I was up to th’ hospital f’r weeks an’ weeks an’ weeks, an’ I was there on a bed, an’ by me on ’nother bed was a big man who had been blew up by a ’splosion somewhere. He use to talk to me, an’ we was good friends f’r quite a spell, an’ when his wife use to bring him flowers he use to give some of ’em to me when she was gone away, yassum. Anagrams en ilnoopss plosions