Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Spit; saliva.
- n. The frothy liquid secreted by spittlebugs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The secretion surrounding the larva of a spittle-insect.
- n. The mucous substance secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; saliva ejected from the mouth.
- n. A kind of small spade.
- n. A spadelike implement with a short handle, used in putting cakes into an oven.
- n. See spital.
- To dig or stir with a small spade.
Wiktionary
- n. Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.
- n. Something frothy and white that resembles spit.
- n. Spit-up or drool of an infant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See spital.
- v. To dig or stir with a small spade.
- n. A small sort of spade.
- n. The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
Etymologies
- Middle English spitel, alteration (influenced by spit1) of spatel, from Old English spātl.
Examples
“He bent over, wiping up some of the still wet spittle from the toe of his boot.”
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“Complete with dilating eye and the spittle from the nostrils this was the moment in film history when anything a filmmaker could dream up was officially a possibility.”
“We are given Gold ones as really really IP's which means we'll be within spittle distance from the speakers.”
“Never would I have thought that you would see rank and file middle/upper middle class people praising and cheering the use of torture and celebrating bush’s ignorant incompetence, but all you had to do was offer them tax cuts, abd they obediently got into line cheering on or turning a blind eye to any number of evils and engaging in spittle flecked rages against Gore and Kerry in their zeal to serve the party.”
“For none shall own me but he, because his cheek is smooth and the water of his mouth sweet as Salsabil; 273 his spittle is a cure for the sick and his charms daze and dazzle poet and proser, even as saith one of him,”
“Get out your masks and TamiFlu everyone, cause he sprays a lot of spittle which is an excellent way of spreading contagion!”
“No foam flecked spittle from the keyboards.”
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“Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable. the white -- literally, "spittle" (1Sa 21: 13), which the white of an egg resembles.”
“He's saying something to me, but I can't understand him at all, I'm too fascinated by the bloody spittle running down his chin.”
“It had started small - bean, spittle, pants - diminutive words which while amusing, lacked the jocular juice needed to push the pods very far from center. 500 clicks tops, and that was for dollop.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spittle’.
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 122 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 174 more...
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bepetersen's list
Words that I think should be banned from the English language
spittle, supper, crusty, moist, engorged, crotch, sinew, salve, suckle, mauve, damp, squat and 34 more...
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LoneWolf8773's list
first go
arcane, asunder, blasphemy, careen, engender, shrapnel, collateral, abomination, infinitesimal, imbecile, incompetent, toss the cookies and 116 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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Words I Dislike
These are words that I dislike, or make me think of dirty things.
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 304 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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norrell's Words
hush, dove, euphoria, nebulae, bryn mawr, darling, phoenix, nape, cream, butterscotch, cosmos, frost and 190 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2536 more...
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The Road
Words from McCarthy's masterpiece
kudzu, patterans, cakebell, culvert, catamite, bivouacked, krugerrand, mendicant, formica, phalanx, rachitic, lacquered and 34 more...
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Hodgepodge
hodgepodge, squelchy, coddle, katydid, bubkes, zamboni, succotash, megaphone, subbookkeeper, joshing, emo, truckle and 30 more...
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Funny Words
Funny sounding words
befuddled, gizmo, teeter-totter, lollygag, cahoots, whippersnapper, kitty-corner, shenanigan, skedaddle, tomfoolery, hornswoggle, humdinger and 38 more...
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Anglo-Saxon
...or otherwise early Germanic.
storm, scorn, nincompoop, thrice, clave, clove, slain, onslaught, hew, breadth, hussy, pelt and 57 more...
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