Spit Meaning and Definition

Word: Spit

How to pronounce: spɪt

Intransitive verb

Definitions:

1. Eject saliva forcibly from one's mouth, sometimes as a gesture of contempt or anger.

Example sentences: "Todd spit in Hugh's face"

2. (of a fire or something being cooked) emit small bursts of sparks or hot fat with a series of short, explosive noises.

Example sentences: "The bonfire crackled and spat"

3. Light rain falls.

Example sentences: "It began to spit"

Noun

Definitions:

1. Saliva, typically that which has been ejected from a person's mouth.

Example sentences: "I brought up all this phlegm and spit into my mouth, and at first it was so, so foul I nearly choked."

2. An act of spitting.

Noun

Definitions:

1. A long, thin metal rod pushed through meat in order to hold and turn it while it is roasted over an open fire.

Example sentences: "Chicken cooked on a spit"

2. A narrow point of land projecting into the sea.

Example sentences: "A narrow spit of land shelters the bay"

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Put a spit through (meat) in order to roast it over an open fire.

Example sentences: "I spitted the squirrel meat and turned it over the flames"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A layer of earth whose depth is equal to the length of the blade of a spade.

Synonyms:

spit out

damn

not care

saliva

spittle

slaver

drool

slobber

sputter

hiss

skewer

puncture

spew

pierce

transfix

expectorate

tongue

sprinkle

expectoration

point

match

Derivations:

spitting

spiting

spited

spitted

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Spit in Other Languages...

Spanish: Escupir

German: Spucken

French: Cracher

Italian: Sputare

Turkish: Tükürmek