spitting

IPA: spˈɪtɪŋ

(chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
(uncountable) An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.

Examples of "spitting" in Sentences

Stop playing around, spitting japes.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D, MO) disavows any role in spitting smear.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D, MO) disavows any role in spitting smear. »
Hope to see any of you who are in spitting distance of Chappaqua, New York - or anybody you've told about it - there.
A banal, unoffensive first lady and a TV talk show host are NOT more admired than the only woman thus far to get within spitting distance of the White House.
When folks begin spitting out statements like ... "wolves are a needed part of a balanced ecosystem" ... it simply tells me they don't really know squat about wolves.
On the domestic front, their idealistic Ward ‘n June Cleaver fantasy may have been conservative while we were still in spitting distance of the 50’s, but at this point it makes about as much sense as trying to turn society Martian.
My favorite bookstores for buying books are any little used book store in any little touristy town, so when you're in, say, Sonoma, and you've tasted so much wine that you are getting a bit buzzy (because spitting is a sin because there are sober children in China), you can wander over to the used book store and breathe the musty smell and find treasures you've never heard of and can't wait to read.