spittoon

IPA: spˈɪtˈun

noun

  • A receptacle for spit.
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Examples of "spittoon" in Sentences

  • A spittoon is seen on the floor at bottom right.
  • The era of the common spittoon in the United States.
  • Fuller brush made special spittoon cleaning brushes.
  • Dada hides from the cat wranglers in a full spittoon.
  • Different printer manufacturers use different spittoon technology.
  • I met his children, and his gouty father-in-law seated by a spittoon.
  • He wanted to spit, but was unable to find a spittoon, so spat upwards.
  • If you're too lethargic to get up and spit, perhaps improvise a spittoon.
  • Many places passed laws against spitting in public other than into a spittoon.
  • From its sloping internal form it might have been called the spittoon of the Jotuns.
  • Oh -- the way you get your foot out of a spittoon is just to unlace your shoe and take your foot out of it.
  • Did he not know that the very "spittoon" which his judgeship used cost the city the sum of one thousand dollars?
  • I'd like to thank Wines of Chile for sending me the 8 wines (and the spittoon and corkscrew) and for hosting the tasting.
  • “I guess I’d rather be shot for adultery than for missing my aim at a goddamn spittoon, which is what Kate’s so mad about.”
  • There are some very amusing moments, not least when the central character, Miles Raymond Paul Giamatti, threatens to leave if somebody orders Merlot and a rather revolting episode involving a spittoon.
  • On the table was placed all his text books and such other teacher's implements, or fixings, and then to descend as it were from the "sublime to the ridiculous," he installed, within easy reach, a large earthen "spittoon," or more modernly speaking, "cuspidor."

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