Uttal
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
- (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
- (countable) An instance of spitting.
- The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
Verb
- To impale on a spit.
- (intransitive, transitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth.
- To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
- To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
- To spade; to dig.
- (transitive) To utter violently.
- (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To utter.
Exempel
- Or perhaps he may see a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit of shingle, against the blue sea [..]
- to spit a loin of veal
- infants spitted upon pikes
- She's spitting in the kitchen.
- Don't spit on the street.
- The teacher told her to spit out her bubble gum.
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- It had been spitting with rain.
- "Why, you little emasculated Don Juan— You—" he spat an unmentionable name— "d'you think I'd fight one of your tin-soldier farces with you? Clear out!"
- "Gentleman? You?" he spat.
- A group of black guys were spitting rhymes in the corner, slapping hands and egging one another on.
- There was spit all over the washbasin.
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