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Spit v. t. (past & past part. spitted; pres. part. spitting)

To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. "Infants spitted upon pikes."

To spade; to dig. (Prov. Eng.)

Spit v. t. (past & past part. spat; pres. part. spitting)

To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth. "Thus spit I out my venom."

To eject; to throw out; to belch. Note: Spitted was sometimes used as the preterit and the past participle. "He... shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on."

Spit v. i. (past & past part. spitted; pres. part. spitting) To attend to a spit; to use a spit. (Obs.) "She's spitting in the kitchen."

Spit v. i. (past & past part. spat; pres. part. spitting)

To throw out saliva from the mouth.

To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles. "It had been spitting with rain."

To spit on or To spit upon, to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. "Spitting upon all antiquity."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spitting" Quotes from Famous Books

... her," she whispered, "but if again—" Her eyes glowed like a cat's in the dark. "Take her away. Make her name a spitting and a disgrace.... Her memory a shame and a sting.... Is she beautiful?" she broke off to demand. "They say—but ...

— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... the founder of militarism, when he was tired of beating his wife and spitting in his children's plates, used to sally forth, thong in hand, in order to cowhide those subjects who did not get out of his way in time. His son, Frederick the Great, declared that he died, bored to death with governing a nation of slaves. In two ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... made his way by two different methods, now by feminine intrigue, anon by his holy utterances. Girard had on his side neither years nor figure; he was a man of forty-seven, tall, withered, weak-looking, of dirty aspect, and given to spitting without end.[108] He had long been a tutor, even till he was thirty-seven; and he preserved some of his college tastes. For the last ten years, namely, ever since the great plague, he had been confessor to the nuns. ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... behavior at table, spitting and coughing, and speaking loud, was counted uncivil in any but a gentleman; as we say in the university, that nothing is fresh in a Senior, and to him it was a glory.—Archaeol. Atticae, Edit. ...

— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

... rebuke with such an open, infectious laugh that the shepherd smiled in the very act of spitting at the stone, with the result that he missed ...

— Trailin'! • Max Brand

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