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Spitting   /spˈɪtɪŋ/   Listen
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Spit  v. t.  (past & past part. spitted; pres. part. spitting)  
1.
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."
2.
To spade; to dig. (Prov. Eng.)



Spit  v. t.  (past & past part. spat; pres. part. spitting)  
1.
To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth. "Thus spit I out my venom."
2.
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)  
1.
To throw out saliva from the mouth.
2.
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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"Spitting" Quotes from Famous Books



... the place, stopping for a moment at the room where the Military Revolutionary Committee worked at furious speed, engulfing and spitting out panting couriers, despatching Commissars armed with power of life and death to all the corners of the city, amid the buzz of the telephonographs. The door opened, a blast of stale air and cigarette smoke rushed out, we caught a glimpse of dishevelled men bending over a map under the ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed

... that walls have ears; we were talking rather loud, but we did not know that there were ears to haystacks. We stared, I tell you, when we saw Joe Scroggs come from behind the stack, looking as red as a turkey-cock, and raving like mad. He burst out swearing at Will and me, like a cat spitting at a dog. His monkey was up and no mistake. He'd let us know that he was as good a man as either of us, or the two put together, for the matter of that. Talk about him in that way; he'd do—I don't know what. I told old Joe we had never thought of him nor said a word about him, ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

... a tidy little town, Where tidy little Fraus sit knitting; (The men's pursuits are, lying down, Smoking perennial pipes, and spitting;) ...
— Verses and Translations • C. S. C.

... Fitz-Forward, my new master, was a younger brother of small means and large pretensions. He had been quartered at Kil-mac-squabble with a detachment, where he had passed the winter in still-hunting, quelling ructions, shooting grouse and rebels, spitting over the bridge, and smoking cigars; and having obtained leave of absence, pour se d'ecrasser, was on his way to London for the ensuing season. We travelled in the cab by easy stages, and halted only at great houses on the road, beginning with Plas Newyd, and ending at Sion House. My master's ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, Number 489, Saturday, May 14, 1831 • Various

... the young doctor was not the man for their money, he grasped his black bag and lounged out of the door, puffing at his cigar and spitting as he went. The Keystone, also, did not find Sommers the man they could rely upon. When the overfed daughter of the family at his table was taken ill with a gastric fever, the anxious mamma sent for Jelly. Webber took this occasion ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick


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