See spit and image in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "spit and image (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English coordinated pairs", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 49, 63 ] ], "ref": "1923, J. S. Fletcher, The Markenmore Mystery, Chapter 21:", "text": "\"Well!\" he exclaimed. \"If 'tain't, 'tis the very spit and image of that there what I sees her handle! But they things be pretty much of a muchness, I reckon, master.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 92, 106 ] ], "ref": "2002 December 8, Román Alonso and Lisa Eisner, “Style; Double Dutch”, in The New York Times:", "text": "Like surgically detached Siamese twins, the Dutch fashion designers Viktor and Rolf are the spit and image of each other.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 43, 57 ] ], "ref": "2013 April 4, Philip Galanes, “One of a Kind”, in The New York Times:", "text": "When they insist you’re this other woman’s spit and image, say: “Actually, we look nothing alike, aside from our skin color.”", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 110, 124 ] ], "ref": "2019 August 26, Elayne Grant Archer, Crossing Troubled Waters, page 89:", "text": "There was also Old Miliken, who'd apparently been a whiz in his time but was now an aged drunk who looked the spit and image of the aging portrait in The Portrait of Dorian Gray.", "type": "quote" } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "spitting image" } ], "glosses": [ "Uncommon form of spitting image." ], "id": "en-spit_and_image-en-noun-K~X0bOaj", "links": [ [ "spitting image", "spitting image#English" ] ], "qualifier": "Usually preceded by \"the\"", "raw_glosses": [ "(Usually preceded by \"the\") Uncommon form of spitting image." ], "tags": [ "form-of", "uncommon", "uncountable" ], "wikipedia": [ "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage" ] } ], "word": "spit and image" }
{ "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "spit and image (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English coordinated pairs", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English uncommon forms", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 49, 63 ] ], "ref": "1923, J. S. Fletcher, The Markenmore Mystery, Chapter 21:", "text": "\"Well!\" he exclaimed. \"If 'tain't, 'tis the very spit and image of that there what I sees her handle! But they things be pretty much of a muchness, I reckon, master.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 92, 106 ] ], "ref": "2002 December 8, Román Alonso and Lisa Eisner, “Style; Double Dutch”, in The New York Times:", "text": "Like surgically detached Siamese twins, the Dutch fashion designers Viktor and Rolf are the spit and image of each other.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 43, 57 ] ], "ref": "2013 April 4, Philip Galanes, “One of a Kind”, in The New York Times:", "text": "When they insist you’re this other woman’s spit and image, say: “Actually, we look nothing alike, aside from our skin color.”", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 110, 124 ] ], "ref": "2019 August 26, Elayne Grant Archer, Crossing Troubled Waters, page 89:", "text": "There was also Old Miliken, who'd apparently been a whiz in his time but was now an aged drunk who looked the spit and image of the aging portrait in The Portrait of Dorian Gray.", "type": "quote" } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "spitting image" } ], "glosses": [ "Uncommon form of spitting image." ], "links": [ [ "spitting image", "spitting image#English" ] ], "qualifier": "Usually preceded by \"the\"", "raw_glosses": [ "(Usually preceded by \"the\") Uncommon form of spitting image." ], "tags": [ "form-of", "uncommon", "uncountable" ], "wikipedia": [ "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage" ] } ], "word": "spit and image" }
Download raw JSONL data for spit and image meaning in English (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (0c45963 and 3c020d2). 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.