cuspidor

• “Why do they call themselves by the graceful name of "cuspidor" -- suggestive of castanets and Andalusian wiles?”

  The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912

• “He spits out the coffee into a large brass cuspidor which is designed for the purpose.”

  All About Coffee

• “The house had a stereo with speakers the size of filing cabinets, a beer-filled refrigerator, and a brass cuspidor heaped with sinsemilla.”

  Simon & Schuster: Here Comes Another Lesson

• “Other sites include Word Spy, which is great and which a bunch of Wordie commenters have linked to, and My Favorite Word, which claims that Joyce's favorite word was "cuspidor." read more | digg story”

  Archive 2007-09-01

• “Pergunta nº1: porque é que eu, ateu descrente, cuspidor em padrecos e pontapeador de bíblias, caio nestas tretas?”

  Natal

• “Ben shifted slightly and used a foot pedal to open a bronze cuspidor shaped like a turtle.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “It was an ordinary outer office of the golden-oak variety, with a railing of spindles separating a telephone switchboard and two typewriter desks from two public settles and a brass cuspidor.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.”

  Main Street

• “Quote from 1909 article: … the famous cuspidor curver … He broke the spitball in and out.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers

• “Then filling first a cup with tepid water, she brought a large cuspidor for Pao-yü to wash his mouth.”

  Hung Lou Meng

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