"spitter" meaning in All languages combined

See spitter on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: spitters [plural]
Etymology: From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|spit|er|t1=rod; skewer}} spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} spitter (plural spitters)
  1. One who puts meat on a spit.
    Sense id: en-spitter-en-noun-UmM6CldB Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 54 46
  2. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
    Sense id: en-spitter-en-noun-7sIy4d6P Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: spittard
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

Forms: spitters [plural]
Etymology: From spit (verb) + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|spit|er|id2=agent noun|pos1=verb}} spit (verb) + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} spitter (plural spitters)
  1. Someone who spits. Translations (one that spits): sylkijä (Finnish), spūtātor [masculine] (Latin), плева́льщик (pleválʹščik) [masculine] (Russian), плева́льщица (pleválʹščica) [feminine] (Russian), pljùvāč [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pljuvàčica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-spitter-en-noun-en:someone_who_spits Disambiguation of 'one that spits': 61 12 19 8
  2. (baseball) Synonym of spitball. Categories (topical): Baseball Synonyms: spitball [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-spitter-en-noun-en:spitball Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  3. (herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Herpetology Categories (lifeform): Cervids Synonyms: spitting cobra [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-spitter-en-noun-en:spitting_cobra Disambiguation of Cervids: 9 17 4 10 48 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 10 2 16 49 14 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 9 8 3 12 54 14 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 5 3 9 59 17 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 8 8 6 14 49 15 Topics: biology, herpetology, natural-sciences, zoology
  4. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.
    Sense id: en-spitter-en-noun-en:improvised_and_portable_spittoon
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: spitters are quitters [vulgar]
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for spitter meaning in All languages combined (5.4kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spit",
        "3": "er",
        "t1": "rod; skewer"
      },
      "expansion": "spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spitter (plural spitters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who puts meat on a spit."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-UmM6CldB",
      "links": [
        [
          "meat",
          "meat"
        ],
        [
          "spit",
          "spit"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-7sIy4d6P",
      "links": [
        [
          "deer",
          "deer"
        ],
        [
          "antler",
          "antler"
        ],
        [
          "brocket",
          "brocket"
        ],
        [
          "pricket",
          "pricket"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spittard"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spitter"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "spitters are quitters"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spit",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun",
        "pos1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "spit (verb) + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From spit (verb) + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spitter (plural spitters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107",
          "text": "After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who spits."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-en:someone_who_spits",
      "links": [
        [
          "spits",
          "spit#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:someone who spits"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "61 12 19 8",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one that spits",
          "word": "sylkijä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 12 19 8",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "one that spits",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "spūtātor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 12 19 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pleválʹščik",
          "sense": "one that spits",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "плева́льщик"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 12 19 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pleválʹščica",
          "sense": "one that spits",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "плева́льщица"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 12 19 8",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "one that spits",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pljùvāč"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 12 19 8",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "one that spits",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pljuvàčica"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of spitball."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-en:spitball",
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "spitball",
          "spitball#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) Synonym of spitball."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:spitball"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "spitball"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Herpetology",
          "orig": "en:Herpetology",
          "parents": [
            "Zoology",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 10 2 16 49 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 8 3 12 54 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 5 3 9 59 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 8 6 14 49 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 17 4 10 48 12",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cervids",
          "orig": "en:Cervids",
          "parents": [
            "Even-toed ungulates",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of spitting cobra."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-en:spitting_cobra",
      "links": [
        [
          "herpetology",
          "herpetology"
        ],
        [
          "spitting cobra",
          "spitting cobra#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:spitting cobra"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "spitting cobra"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "herpetology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-en:improvised_and_portable_spittoon",
      "links": [
        [
          "spittoon",
          "spittoon"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:improvised and portable spittoon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spitter"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English agent nouns",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
    "en:Cervids"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spit",
        "3": "er",
        "t1": "rod; skewer"
      },
      "expansion": "spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spitter (plural spitters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who puts meat on a spit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meat",
          "meat"
        ],
        [
          "spit",
          "spit"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deer",
          "deer"
        ],
        [
          "antler",
          "antler"
        ],
        [
          "brocket",
          "brocket"
        ],
        [
          "pricket",
          "pricket"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spittard"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spitter"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English agent nouns",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
    "en:Cervids"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "spitters are quitters"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spit",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun",
        "pos1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "spit (verb) + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From spit (verb) + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spitter (plural spitters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107",
          "text": "After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who spits."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spits",
          "spit#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:someone who spits"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Baseball"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of spitball."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "spitball",
          "spitball#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) Synonym of spitball."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:spitball"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "spitball"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "en:Herpetology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of spitting cobra."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "herpetology",
          "herpetology"
        ],
        [
          "spitting cobra",
          "spitting cobra#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:spitting cobra"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "spitting cobra"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "herpetology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spittoon",
          "spittoon"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:improvised and portable spittoon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one that spits",
      "word": "sylkijä"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "one that spits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spūtātor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pleválʹščik",
      "sense": "one that spits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "плева́льщик"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pleválʹščica",
      "sense": "one that spits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "плева́льщица"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one that spits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pljùvāč"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one that spits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pljuvàčica"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spitter"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.