spittle
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He had been smoking a big cigar, and his spittle was dark brown, and it looped like caramel on the glossy white surface of the paint.
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- noun Spit; saliva.
- noun The frothy liquid secreted by spittlebugs.
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- He was a rake and a lick-spittle, the very last man in Scotland for Jane Campbell to throw herself away upon. — Samuel Rutherford
- The coarse cloth was wet before with spittle, and the mouth within must be clogged and stung with ropey fibres, but at least the poor wretch could breathe, his strangled grunts were trying to form words long before the linen parted, and let him spit out his gag. — St. Peter's Fair
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He had been smoking a big cigar, and his spittle was dark brown, and it looped like caramel on the glossy white surface of the paint.
— Beard - Behind her, whisking spittle from the mouthpiece of her willow flute, stood a young woman dressed in little more than golden epaulets slapped strategically about her body. — Son of a Witch
- This time, the spittle from the tall rider would have hit De’Unnero’s leg had not the agile former monk shifted. — Ascendance
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- Middle English spitel, alteration (influenced by spit1) of spatel, from Old English spātl.
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/ (spĭtˈl)/
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