spit
IPA: spˈɪt
noun
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
- (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image).
- (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”)
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- (Internet) Abbreviation of spam over Internet telephony.
verb
- (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- (transitive, intransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
- (impersonal) To rain or snow slightly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To utter (something) violently.
- (intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
- (transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.
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Examples of "spit" in Sentences
- He spitted sputum.
- He spitted on the sidewalk.
- They spit the crumbles out.
- They spit on the churl who is cruel.
- Stop playing around, spitting japes.
- Get a mouthful and spit it into the cup.
- Decorum is what you spit in the face of.
- The people spit contumely out of their mouths.
- I chew the meat and spit the bones for myself.
- A room full of angry people, one of them covered in spit
- But to revert is to spit in the face of the original author.
- I tried bogle merlot the other day and it was so oaky I spit is out.
- who had ridden on the shoulders of the crowd in the first year of Alfonsín's government, was by the end of his term spit upon by his own
- Naples and Gulf Coast high schools hosted anti-tobacco activist Rick Bender to hear his story of his tobacco use, smokeless tobacco which he calls spit tobacco.
- One of his economics ministers, who had ridden on the shoulders of the crowd in the first year of Alfonsín’s government, was by the end of his term spit upon by his own neighbors when he dared to venture outside his home.
- I think it would be pretty neat if Lucasarts released the adventure games into a collection for the PC and Wii ... entitled "The Adventure Collection of Lucasarts" {If any of you guys have any names for a title spit them out}.
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