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
