See spit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for spit meaning in English (113.8kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "sandspit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "spit cake"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "spit engine"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "sense 2",
"word": "Spithead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "spit jack"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "spit of land"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-",
"4": "*spey-"
},
"expansion": "[Template:root]",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete"
},
"expansion": "spete",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spette"
},
"expansion": "spette",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spyte"
},
"expansion": "spyte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*spitō",
"t": "rod; skewer; spike"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*spituz",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; stick"
},
"expansion": "*spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *spid-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spey-",
"t": "sharp; sharp stick"
},
"expansion": "*spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "Spitt",
"t": "pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spid"
},
"expansion": "Danish spid",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spett",
"t": "skewer; spit; type of crowbar"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spiten",
"t": "to put on a spit; to impale"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spießen",
"t": "to skewer, to spear"
},
"expansion": "German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spissen"
},
"expansion": "spissen",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "now dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(now dialectal)",
"name": "qualifier"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spidde"
},
"expansion": "Danish spidde",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).\nThe verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)) and Danish spidde.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (plural spits)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1793, G. Hamilton, “[Appendix to the Tenth Volume of the Monthly Review Enlarged.] A Short Description of Carnicobar”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume X, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, page 509",
"text": "They roaſt a fowl, by running a piece of wood through it, by way of ſpit, and holding it over a briſk fire, until the feathers are burnt of, when it is ready for eating, in their taſte.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1793, Arthur Young, “1788 [chapter]”, in Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France. […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Dublin: Printed for Messrs. R. Cross, […], →OCLC, page 192",
"text": "An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1817, [William Kitchiner], “Roasting”, in Apicius Redivivus; or, The Cook’s Oracle: […], London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, […], by J. Moyes, […], →OCLC",
"text": "When the joint to be roasted is thicker at one end than the other, place the spit slanting, so that the whole time the thickest part is nearest the fire, and also the thinnest by this means is preserved from being overmuch roasted.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1950, James Hornell, “The Greatest Eel-farm and Eel-trap in the World”, in Fishing in Many Waters, 1st paperback edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, published 2014, page 166",
"text": "The spits upon which the double sections of fish are transfixed are iron rods about 7 feet long, provided with an L-shaped handle at one end, so that when hung on a bracket at either side of the fireplace it may be turned by hand.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-Xu4-pE1a",
"links": [
[
"thin",
"thin#Adjective"
],
[
"metal",
"metal#Adjective"
],
[
"wooden",
"wooden"
],
[
"rod",
"rod"
],
[
"skewered",
"skewer#Verb"
],
[
"cooking",
"cook#Verb"
],
[
"fire",
"fire#Noun"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "broach"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "saffūd",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سَفُّود"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "sīḵ",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سِيخ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "sīḵ",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "سيخ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "šampʿur",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "շամփուր"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "šiš",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "շիշ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "şeş",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "шеш"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "šiš",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шиш"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ast"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kǎoròuchā",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "烤肉叉"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "syc",
"lang": "Classical Syriac",
"roman": "šapūdā",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ܫܦܘܕܐ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "špíz"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rožeň"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spid"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "mꜥq",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "m-a:q-F18"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "eve",
"lang": "Even",
"roman": "hilun",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "хилун"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "varras"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broche"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espeto"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šampuri",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "შამფური"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spieß"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "soúvla",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "σούβλα"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "obelós",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ὀβελός"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "nyárs"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grillteinn"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "steikingarteinn"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bior"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bior rósta"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "girarrosto"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spiedo"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"alt": "くし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kushi",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "串"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "verū"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "iesms"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ražen",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ражен"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "huki"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "mataahi"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "silpon",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "силпон"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nog",
"lang": "Nogai",
"roman": "sis",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "сис"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broche"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spidd"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spidd"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spitu"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şiş",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "شیش"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "sih",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "سیخ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "six",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "سیخ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "gardenâ",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "گردنا"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "belesk",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "بلسک"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rożen"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espeto"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "frigare"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vértel",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ве́ртел"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šampúr",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шампу́р"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rožón",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рожо́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ра́жањ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "rážanj"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brocheta"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asador"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spett"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "şiş"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "rožén",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "роже́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "šampúr",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шампу́р"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spéo"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "6 10 19 2 6 16 3 3 2 3 7 5 1 1 1 4 1 5 3 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1843, William W[illiams] Mather, “Marine Alluvial Detritus”, in Geology of New-York (Natural History of New York; part 4), part I (Comprising the Geology of the First Geological District), Albany, N.Y.: Printed by Carroll & Cook, […], →OCLC, page 28",
"text": "Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a sand-spit extends from the west shore, obliquely, nearly across. [...] The materials are transported by the currents and waves, and deposited to form this spit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Publications, number 94, United States Hydrographic Office, →OCLC, page 228, column 2",
"text": "Chiao Shih, 44 feet high, lies about 1/2 mile southeastward of Ko-li, a 199-foot islet, that lies close off the south end of Pei-kan-t’ang Tao and is connected to it by a stoney spit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Robert C. Graham, A. Toby O’Geen, “Geomorphology and Soils”, in Harold Mooney, Erika Zavaleta, editors, Ecosystems of California, Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, part 1 (Drivers), page 63, column 1",
"text": "Playa margins are dominated by relict shoreline features, such as wave-cut terraces, depositional beach ridges, and offshore bars and spits.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-6yuABsMn",
"links": [
[
"low",
"low#Adjective"
],
[
"narrow",
"narrow#Adjective"
],
[
"pointed",
"pointed#Adjective"
],
[
"sandy",
"sandy"
],
[
"peninsula",
"peninsula"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "dil"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "qomayaq",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "ҡомаяҡ"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "qomayıl",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "ҡомайыл"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kasá",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "каса́"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tesen nos",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "тесен нос"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāzuǐ",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "沙嘴"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zuǐ",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "嘴"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tange"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "maasäär"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "kynnäs"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "baixío"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nehrung"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Landzunge"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oddi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tangi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nērija"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zemes strēle"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "nerija"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "provlak",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "провлак"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "tūpahipahi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mierzeja"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ponta"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kosá",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коса́"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barra"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kosá",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коса́"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "länalineg"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-",
"4": "*spey-"
},
"expansion": "[Template:root]",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete"
},
"expansion": "spete",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spette"
},
"expansion": "spette",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spyte"
},
"expansion": "spyte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*spitō",
"t": "rod; skewer; spike"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*spituz",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; stick"
},
"expansion": "*spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *spid-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spey-",
"t": "sharp; sharp stick"
},
"expansion": "*spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "Spitt",
"t": "pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spid"
},
"expansion": "Danish spid",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spett",
"t": "skewer; spit; type of crowbar"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spiten",
"t": "to put on a spit; to impale"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spießen",
"t": "to skewer, to spear"
},
"expansion": "German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spissen"
},
"expansion": "spissen",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "now dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(now dialectal)",
"name": "qualifier"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spidde"
},
"expansion": "Danish spidde",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).\nThe verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)) and Danish spidde.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spitting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to spit a loin of veal",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1991, I. F. La Croix, E. A. S. La Croix, T. M. La Croix, “Malaŵi: Climate and Geography”, in Orchids of Malaŵi: The Epiphytic and Terrestrial Orchids from South and East Central Africa, Rotterdam, Brookfield, Vt.: A[ugust] A[imé] Balkema, page 4, column 2",
"text": "Fried or roast mice, spitted on sticks like kebabs, are often offered for sale by the roadside.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Hilary Mantel, “Falcons: Wiltshire, September 1535”, in Bring Up the Bodies, London: Fourth Estate, part 1",
"text": "[H]e has seen kitchens thrown into turmoil, and he himself has been down in the grey-green hour before dawn, when the brick ovens are swabbed out ready for the first batch of loaves, as carcasses are spitted, pots set on trivets, poultry plucked and jointed.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-mG2msE8-",
"links": [
[
"impale",
"impale"
],
[
"spit",
"#Noun"
],
[
"pierce",
"pierce"
],
[
"sharp",
"sharp#Adjective"
],
[
"object",
"object#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "naboždam",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "набождам"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "spidde"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "embrocher"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espetar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espichar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "aufspießen"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "nyársra húz"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "huki"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şişlemek",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "شیشلمك"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espetar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nasaživatʹ",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "насаживать"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espetar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "şişlemek"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Gary Alan Wassner, chapter 36, in The Twins, Port Orchard, Wash.: Windstorm Creative; republished London: Gateway, 2014",
"text": "[H]e saw that the fires scattered all over the massive camp were emitting greasy fumes from the carcasses of the burning animals spitted over the flames.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-vEnb1Gr2",
"links": [
[
"use",
"use#Verb"
],
[
"cook",
"cook#Verb"
],
[
"attend to",
"attend to"
],
[
"food",
"food"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "chew the meat and spit out the bones"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "chew up and spit out"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Equatorial spitting cobra"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "not know whether to spit or go blind"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit blood"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit box"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit bucket"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit chips"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit facts"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit feathers"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit fire"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit in someone's face"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit in the ocean"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit in the wind"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit into the wind"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit it out"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit nails"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit out"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit-poison"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit straight facts"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit tacks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit the dummy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitting chips"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitting cobra"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitting distance"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitting image"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitting spider"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "swap spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "trust someone as far as one can spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "trust someone as far as one could spit"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "speten",
"4": "spē̆ten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spē̆ten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spǣtan",
"t": "to spit; to squirt"
},
"expansion": "Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "spitte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spyttan",
"3": "",
"pos": "",
"t": "to spit",
"tr": ""
},
"expansion": "spyttan (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sp(y)ēw"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spyū"
},
"expansion": "*spyū",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitelen",
"t": "to spit out, expectorate"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spew"
},
"expansion": "English spew",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spütte"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spütte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spotta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spotta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "spýta"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse spýta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Faroese spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spyt",
"t": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spyt (“spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "saliva, spittle, sputum"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spet",
"t": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spet (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "speten",
"3": "spē̆ten",
"4": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spē̆ten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spetel",
"3": "spē̆tel",
"4": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spiit"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spiit",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The verb is from Middle English spē̆ten, spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”); or from Middle English spit, spitte, spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spittan, spyttan (“to spit”), both from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw, *spyū, ultimately imitative; compare Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”) and English spew. The English word is cognate with Danish spytte (“to spit”), North Frisian spütte, Norwegian spytte (“to spit”), Swedish spotta (“to spit”), Old Norse spýta (Faroese spýta (“to spit”), Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)).\nThe noun is derived from the verb; compare Danish spyt (“spit”), Middle English spit, spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”), spet (“saliva, spittle”), spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”), North Frisian spiit.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spitting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spat",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spat",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spit",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spit",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "spits",
"2": "spitting",
"3": "spat",
"past2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spat or spit)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1974, James A[lbert] Michener, “Drylands”, in Centennial, New York, N.Y.: Random House; Dial Press trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 2015, page 931",
"text": "When the mighty duststorm, silent and terrifying, first engulfed her, she thought she would choke. Spitting dust from her dry lips, she ran indoors to protect the children, and found them coughing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus, London: Hutchinson, page 25; republished London: Arrow Books, Random House Group, 1995, pages 39–40",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 October 21, “Network News: Belly Mujinga”, in Rail, page 11",
"text": "The 47-year-old had allegedly been spat at by a passenger at London Victoria who said he had the virus, although a subsequent police investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-en:expectorate",
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"evacuate",
"evacuate"
],
[
"saliva",
"saliva"
],
[
"mouth",
"mouth#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc."
],
"senseid": [
"en:expectorate"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "expectorate"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spoeg"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "xag",
"lang": "Aghwan",
"roman": "ću",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "𐕉𐕒𐕡"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "akl",
"lang": "Aklanon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tupea"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "pështyj"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṣaqa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "بَصَقَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bazaqa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "بَزَقَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tafala",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تَفَلَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taffa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تَفَّ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taff",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "تَفّ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taffal",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "تَفَّل"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bzaq",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "بزق"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tfal",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "تفل"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʿkʿel",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "թքել"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ascuchiu"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "thu pelüa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "থু পেলোৱা"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "av",
"lang": "Avar",
"roman": "tuze",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "тузе"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tüpürmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "tököröw",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "төкөрөү"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "txistu egin"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pljavácʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плява́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "napljavácʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "наплява́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pljúnucʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "плю́нуць"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "thutu phela",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "থুতু ফেলা"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "bcl",
"lang": "Bikol Central",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "lustab"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pljúja",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плю́я"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hráča",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "хра́ча"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "htwe:",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ထွေး"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escopir"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escopinar"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tofa"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔtán",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐痰"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cuì",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "啐"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kǎ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "咯"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "噴放"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pēnfàng",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "喷放"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔkǒu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐口"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "plivnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "plivat"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spytte"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "duu",
"lang": "Drung",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "lai"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "duu",
"lang": "Drung",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "dvbeq"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spuwen"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spugen"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cjm",
"lang": "Eastern Cham",
"roman": "kachuh",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ꨆꨌꨭꩍ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "tf",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "t:f-D26"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "kraĉi"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sülitama"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sülgama"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "eve",
"lang": "Even",
"roman": "tumņidaj",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "тумнидай"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sylkeä"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "once",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sylkäistä"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"continuative"
],
"word": "syljeskellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "cracher"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spudâ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "cuspir"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "dapurtxeba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "დაფურთხება"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gadapurtxeba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "გადაფურთხება"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mipurtxeba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "მიფურთხება"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spucken"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "speiwan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ftýno",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "φτύνω"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ptúō",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "πτύω"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "yarak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "יָרַק"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mba",
"lang": "Higaonon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ilub"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "thūknā",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "थूकना"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "köp"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "hrx",
"lang": "Hunsrik",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spucke"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "hrækja"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "meludah"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sylkiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "caith seile"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputare"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ium",
"lang": "Iu Mien",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "bitv"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"alt": "つばをはく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsuba o haku",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "つばを吐く"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"alt": "はく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "haku",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐く"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "zku",
"lang": "Kaurna",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tadlibandi"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tükırtu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "түкірту"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tükıru",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "түкіру"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sdɑh",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ស្ដោះ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khaak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខាក"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khaek",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខែក"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khcĕək",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខ្ជាក់"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khpuu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខ្ពុរ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chimeulbaetda",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "침을뱉다"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "baetda",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "뱉다"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tif kirin"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "tükürüü",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "түкүрүү"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "khāk",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ຂາກ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "khāi",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ຄາຍ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ຖຸຽ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spjauti"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "špļaut"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spuō"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputō"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "conspuō"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spļaut"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spļauties"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spjauti"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúka",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плу́ка"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "‘rka",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "‘рка"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ludah"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "beżaq"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "cifelembi",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ᠴᡳᡶᡝᠯᡝᠮᠪᡳ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tuha"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tuwha"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "thukṇe",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "थुकणे"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mnw",
"lang": "Mon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ကၠာတ်"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mnw",
"lang": "Mon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ချဟ်"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nulimax",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "нулимах"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "chihcha"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "topin-",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "топин-"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "hutra mare"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spytte"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escupir"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escopir"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "thukiba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ଥୁକିବା"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spǣtan"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "os",
"lang": "Ossetian",
"roman": "tu kænyn",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ту кӕнын"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tof kardan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تف کردن"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pluć"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "splunąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "plunąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "cuspir"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "thuqay"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "aqtuy"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "raj",
"lang": "Rajasthani",
"roman": "thūkṇau",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "थूकणौ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "rap",
"lang": "Rapa Nui",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "aanu"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "scuipa"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spidar"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plevátʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плева́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pljúnutʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "плю́нуть"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naplevátʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "наплева́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ksw",
"lang": "S'gaw Karen",
"roman": "hṭoö phgeḥ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ထူးပှဲာ်"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "ṣṭhīvati",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ष्ठीवति"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пљу̏вати"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pljȕvati"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputari"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputazzari"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "scraccari"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pľuť"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pljuvati"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "so",
"lang": "Somali",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tufid"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pluwaś"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "plunuś"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pluwać"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escupir"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spotta"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "dumura"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "tuf kardan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "туф кардан"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "tuppu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "துப்பு"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "tsg",
"lang": "Tausug",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "lumura"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "tet",
"lang": "Tetum",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tafui"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kàak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ขาก"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tǔi",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ถุย"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tükürmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tüýkürmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "uga",
"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "wpṯ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "𐎆𐎔𐎘"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pljuváty",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плюва́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pljúnuty",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "плю́нути"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "napljuváty",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "наплюва́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "thūknā",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تھوکنا"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "tükürmek",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تۈكۈرمەك"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tupurmoq"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "nhổ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "khạc nhổ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spukön"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "poeri"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mbb",
"lang": "Western Bukidnon Manobo",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ileb"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "mww",
"lang": "White Hmong",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "nto"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "sillee",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "силлээ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "yua",
"lang": "Yucatec Maya",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ch'iin"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "zea",
"lang": "Zealandic",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spieë"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "zea",
"lang": "Zealandic",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spoege"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "-phimisa"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 13 0 1 1 2 1",
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "-fela"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a hot pan spitting droplets of fat",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2015 May, James Axler [pseudonym; Rik Hoskin], chapter 6, in Hell’s Maw (Outlanders; 73), Don Mills, Ont.: Gold Eagle Books, Worldwide Library, page 73",
"text": "The wag zigzagged across the field, bumping over ruts in the soil and tangled grass as a stream of bullets followed them from the high-mounted railguns, spitting sparks from the metal sides of the wag.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-mT~2FIdu",
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"emit",
"emit"
],
[
"expel",
"expel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1851 December 24, Henry David Thoreau, “December, 1851 (Æt[atis] 34)”, in Bradford Torrey, editor, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, volumes III (September 16, 1851 – April 30, 1852), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company, published 1906, →OCLC, page 153",
"text": "It spits snow this afternoon. Saw a flock of snowbirds on the Walden road. I see them so commonly when it is beginning to snow that I am inclined to regard them as a sign of a snow-storm.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rain or snow slightly."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-7PgczBVy",
"links": [
[
"rain",
"rain#Verb"
],
[
"snow",
"snow#Verb"
],
[
"slightly",
"slightly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(impersonal) To rain or snow slightly."
],
"tags": [
"impersonal"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1915, Amélie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy), chapter XXXIX, in Shadows of Flames: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC, page 240",
"text": "\"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!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Mark Gatiss, “The Mystery of the Two Geologists”, in The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff (A Lucifer Box Novel), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, 2005, page 23",
"text": "\"Gentleman? You?\" he spat.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To utter (something) violently."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-49ZTwVm5",
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"utter",
"utter"
],
[
"violently",
"violently"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To utter (something) violently."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-Eq7kfN8R",
"links": [
[
"make",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"sound",
"sound#Noun"
],
[
"angry",
"angry"
],
[
"cat",
"cat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Giselle Zado Wasfie, So Fly, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin",
"text": "A group of black guys were spitting rhymes in the corner, slapping hands and egging one another on.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation, page 138",
"text": "[…] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rap, to utter."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-GDMj1HT1",
"links": [
[
"rap",
"rap#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"dancing",
"hip-hop",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's spitting for sure.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-SGk7iPaj",
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"spit facts",
"spit facts"
],
[
"truth",
"truth"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth."
],
"tags": [
"humorous",
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Collins English Dictionary",
"Oxford Dictionaries"
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "cough and a spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "cuckoo spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "dummy spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "frog spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit and baling wire"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit and image"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit and polish"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit-and-sawdust"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit and vinegar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitball"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit bath"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit brothers"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit-cup"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit curl"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit guard"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit hood"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit mask"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit shine"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spitshine"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit take"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spittoon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit-up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "spit wad"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "toad-spit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "very spit of"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "speten",
"4": "spē̆ten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spē̆ten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spǣtan",
"t": "to spit; to squirt"
},
"expansion": "Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "spitte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spyttan",
"3": "",
"pos": "",
"t": "to spit",
"tr": ""
},
"expansion": "spyttan (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sp(y)ēw"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spyū"
},
"expansion": "*spyū",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitelen",
"t": "to spit out, expectorate"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spew"
},
"expansion": "English spew",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spütte"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spütte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spotta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spotta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "spýta"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse spýta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Faroese spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spyt",
"t": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spyt (“spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "saliva, spittle, sputum"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spet",
"t": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spet (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "speten",
"3": "spē̆ten",
"4": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spē̆ten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spetel",
"3": "spē̆tel",
"4": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spiit"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spiit",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The verb is from Middle English spē̆ten, spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”); or from Middle English spit, spitte, spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spittan, spyttan (“to spit”), both from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw, *spyū, ultimately imitative; compare Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”) and English spew. The English word is cognate with Danish spytte (“to spit”), North Frisian spütte, Norwegian spytte (“to spit”), Swedish spotta (“to spit”), Old Norse spýta (Faroese spýta (“to spit”), Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)).\nThe noun is derived from the verb; compare Danish spyt (“spit”), Middle English spit, spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”), spet (“saliva, spittle”), spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”), North Frisian spiit.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "spit (countable and uncountable, plural spits)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "6 10 19 2 6 16 3 3 2 3 7 5 1 1 1 4 1 5 3 3",
"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": "31 2 11 32 8 6 1 1 1 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 4 17 15 9 11 1 2 2 7 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Iu Mien terms in nonstandard scripts",
"parents": [
"Terms in nonstandard scripts",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 5 36 1 3 3 3 3 1 1 15 10 1 2 2 4 1 3 2 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Bodily fluids",
"orig": "en:Bodily fluids",
"parents": [
"Body parts",
"Liquids",
"Body",
"Anatomy",
"Matter",
"Human",
"Biology",
"Medicine",
"Chemistry",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 10 13 3 8 6 4 9 3 3 6 4 1 1 2 5 4 4 3 3",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Landforms",
"orig": "en:Landforms",
"parents": [
"Earth",
"Places",
"Nature",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "There was spit all over the washbasin.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Connie Colwell Miller, “How Spit Happens”, in The Slimy Book of Spit (The Amazingly Gross Human Body), Mankato, Minn.: Edge Books, Capstone Press, page 19",
"text": "Sometimes your body doesn't make as much spit as it needs. When you sleep, your salivary glands take a bit of a snooze too. You're still making spit, but not as much. This is why your mouth feels dry when you wake up.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 108",
"text": "[T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Saliva, especially when expectorated."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-NokQ10s2",
"links": [
[
"Saliva",
"saliva"
],
[
"expectorated",
"expectorate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "expectoration"
},
{
"word": "spittle"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "aa",
"lang": "Afar",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "tufo"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "buzāq",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بُزَاق"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʿukʿ",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "թուք"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "thu",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "থু"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "tökörök",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "төкөрөк"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "slína",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слі́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sljúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слю́нка"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pljúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плю́нка"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escopina"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escopinyada"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ccc",
"lang": "Chamicuro",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "sakola"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tùmo",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "吐沫"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "dlm",
"lang": "Dalmatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spoit"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spyt"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "speeksel"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spuug"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spuwsel"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "tf",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "t:f«D154»"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "sylki"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crachat"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "spudačh"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "esputo"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "napurtxi",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ნაფურთხი"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "purtxi",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ფურთხი"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Speichel"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Spucke"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "spaiskuldr",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌳𐍂"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ptúon",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πτύον"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "rok",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "רוק"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "nyál"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "köpet"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ludah"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "seile"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sileog"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sputo"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"alt": "つばき, tsubakí, つば, tsuba",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "唾"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "idu"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "kecoh"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chim",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "침"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tif"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sputum"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spļāviens"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "siekalas"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúkanka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плу́канка"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плу́нка"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ludahan"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "cifenggu",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ᠴᡳᡶᡝᠩᡤᡠ"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "hūare"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "thūk",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "थूक"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "chihchitl"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spytt"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spytt"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "escup"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spātl"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "tükürük",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "توكوروك"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tof",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "تف"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Kjwiel"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spie"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ślina"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cuspe"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "saliva"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "scuipat"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sljuná",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слюна́"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sljúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"feminine"
],
"word": "слю́нка"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "smugaid"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "слина"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "пљувачка"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pljuvačka"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "escupida"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spott"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "rif",
"lang": "Tarifit",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kuffu"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "pitke"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "tükürük"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "slýna",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сли́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "nước bọt"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "spukot"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "raetchon"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scraetchete"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "poer"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fliber"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 1 7 12",
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "sil",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "сил"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015, Col Buchanan, “Return of the King”, in The Black Dream, London: Tor Books",
"text": "It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-uK-G~no~",
"links": [
[
"spitting",
"#Verb 2"
],
[
"light",
"light#Adjective"
],
[
"fall",
"fall#Noun"
],
[
"rain",
"rain#Verb"
],
[
"snow",
"snow#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pljavók",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пляво́к"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pljuene",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "плюене"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "plivnutí"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "sylkeminen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crachement"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šepurtxeba",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "შეფურთხება"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spritzer"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "yerika",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "יריקה"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "köpés"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "tifkirin"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúkanje",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "плу́кање"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "splunięcie"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuspida"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plevók",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плево́к"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pljuvók",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плюво́к"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 87 7 3",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "spuk"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rǎmene",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ръмене"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"english": "rain",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sprühregen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"english": "rain",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nieselregen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"word": "szemerkélő eső/hó"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "31 2 11 32 8 6 1 1 1 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1840, The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine, page 405",
"text": "[…] according to some of the elders of the village, young Philip was the “very spit” of his father, as they once remembered him […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Kate Konopicky, “Worn-Out Genes”, in A Woman Of No Importance: A Tenderly Observed, Ruthlessly Honest and Hilariously Funny Memoir about the Joys and Horrors of Motherhood, Ebury Publishing",
"text": "Lots of people claimed she was the image of her father (about the same number who saw her as the dead spit of her mother), which was a little disconcerting.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image)."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-en:likeness",
"links": [
[
"spitting image",
"spitting image#English"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:likeness"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "6 10 19 2 6 16 3 3 2 3 7 5 1 1 1 4 1 5 3 3",
"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": "31 2 11 32 8 6 1 1 1 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of slam (“card game”)"
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-JhDteMRr",
"links": [
[
"slam",
"slam#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "card game",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "slam"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "8 1 4 88",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a synonym of slam (“card game”)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schlemm"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 4 88",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a synonym of slam (“card game”)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Durchmarsch"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "speet"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speet",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "spêdt"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German spêdt",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spatt"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spatt",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spet"
},
"expansion": "spet",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spitten",
"t": "to dig"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten (“to dig”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan",
"t": "to dig with a spade"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spetten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch spetten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spat"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spat",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spitte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.\nThe verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”), possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (plural spits)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1791 January 10, Samuel Dunn, Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; […], volume IX, London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son, […]; and sold by Messrs. [James] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 42",
"text": "They [the potatoes] ſtood till October, when they were taken up, and a large pye made of them; which is laying them up in a heap, and covering them with ſtraw and a ſpit of earth.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1792 January 1, Lewis Majendie, Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; […], volume X, London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son, […]; and sold by Messrs. [James] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 4",
"text": "The firſt plantation, containing four thouſand ſix hundred oaks, was formed on part of the ancient Home Park, ſurrounding this Caſtle: the ſoil was dug one full ſpit, and the turf inverted; [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1832, “Horticulture”, in David Brewster, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, [...] In Eighteen Volumes, 1st American edition, volume X, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by Joseph and Edward Parker. […], →OCLC, page 545, column 1",
"text": "Soil of the usual depth may be trenched two spit (spadeful) deep; and if this is done every third year, it is evident that the surface which has produced three crops will rest for the next three years; thus giving a much better chance of constantly producing healthy and luxuriant crops, and with one half the manure that would otherwise be requisite.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "[2006], NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers, “Production and Management of Medicinal Plants on Farms”, in Cultivation and Processing of Selected Medicinal Plants, Delhi: Asia Pacific Business Press, page 82",
"text": "Proceed as for the single dig but start by removing two spits of topsoil to the far diagonal corner and also one spit of subsoil. Turn the exposed subsoil from hole two into hole one. Incorporate organic matter.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-2dtRXYWj",
"links": [
[
"depth",
"depth"
],
[
"blade",
"blade"
],
[
"spade",
"spade#Noun"
],
[
"soil",
"soil#Noun"
],
[
"digging",
"dig#Verb"
],
[
"layer",
"layer#Noun"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "90 10",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "edin bel dǎlbočina",
"sense": "depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging",
"word": "един бел дълбочина"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Spatentiefe"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spaten"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1795 March, Ezra L’Hommedieu, “Observations on Manures”, in Transactions of the Society, for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, Instituted in the State of New-York, 2nd revised edition, volume I, Albany, N.Y.: Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, […], published 1801, →OCLC, part III (Transactions, &c.), page 235",
"text": "Dig your clay with a ſpade in ſpits of ordinary bricks; dig two, three, eight, ten or twenty loads of clay, more or leſs as you pleaſe; [...] then take theſe ſpits of clay, after they are tried in the ſun, ſurround your pile of wood with them, [...]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-noun-CxIHFkx0",
"links": [
[
"amount",
"amount#Noun"
],
[
"holds",
"hold#Verb"
],
[
"spadeful",
"spadeful"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "speet"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speet",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "spêdt"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German spêdt",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spatt"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spatt",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spet"
},
"expansion": "spet",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spitten",
"t": "to dig"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten (“to dig”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan",
"t": "to dig with a spade"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spetten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch spetten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spat"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spat",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spitte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.\nThe verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”), possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spitting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1769, “PLOUGH”, in The Complete Farmer: Or, A General Dictionary of Husbandry in All Its Branches; […], 2nd corrected and improved edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, […], →OCLC, column 2",
"text": "[T]he double plough, by taking faſt hold of the mould, throws all back again; and if the vegetables are not effectually earthed up, which may be the caſe after double ſpitting the intervals, then running the double plough over again, completes the buſineſs, and ſtrangely toſſes about and mellows the mould.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-jTsxqRjZ",
"links": [
[
"dig",
"dig#Verb"
],
[
"spade",
"spade#Noun"
],
[
"turn",
"turn#Verb"
],
[
"soil",
"soil#Noun"
],
[
"plough",
"plough#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1882 May, J. Alexander Fulton, “Delaware Peach Orchards”, in Joseph H. Reall, editor, Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume 2, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Agricultural Review Company, […], →OCLC, page 124",
"text": "When the [peach] seed is procured it is either \"spitted in\" with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To plant (something) using a spade."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-k383tRPU",
"links": [
[
"plant",
"plant#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1758 September 2–5, “A Course of Experiments and Improvements in Agriculture, […]”, in The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post, volume IV, number 263, London: Sold by J. Wilkie, […], →OCLC, page 219, column 1",
"text": "We left the ground, of field of loam, by ſuppoſition under two ſorts of managements; the one part very rough, and the other made as fine as circumſtances would allow; the former ploughed the uſual depth, the other double ſpitted; [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1882 May, J. Alexander Fulton, “Delaware Peach Orchards”, in Joseph H. Reall, editor, Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume 2, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Agricultural Review Company, […], →OCLC, page 124",
"text": "Then the ground is \"spitted\" or spaded in about six or eight inches deep, as a garden is for a crop of vegetables.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dig, to spade."
],
"id": "en-spit-en-verb-xaVxKOdy",
"links": [
[
"spade",
"spade#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "delve"
}
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *spey-",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *spid-",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable",
"en:Bodily fluids",
"en:Landforms"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "sandspit"
},
{
"word": "spit cake"
},
{
"word": "spit engine"
},
{
"english": "sense 2",
"word": "Spithead"
},
{
"word": "spit jack"
},
{
"word": "spit of land"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-",
"4": "*spey-"
},
"expansion": "[Template:root]",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete"
},
"expansion": "spete",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spette"
},
"expansion": "spette",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spyte"
},
"expansion": "spyte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*spitō",
"t": "rod; skewer; spike"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*spituz",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; stick"
},
"expansion": "*spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *spid-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spey-",
"t": "sharp; sharp stick"
},
"expansion": "*spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "Spitt",
"t": "pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spid"
},
"expansion": "Danish spid",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spett",
"t": "skewer; spit; type of crowbar"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spiten",
"t": "to put on a spit; to impale"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spießen",
"t": "to skewer, to spear"
},
"expansion": "German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spissen"
},
"expansion": "spissen",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "now dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(now dialectal)",
"name": "qualifier"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spidde"
},
"expansion": "Danish spidde",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).\nThe verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)) and Danish spidde.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (plural spits)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1793, G. Hamilton, “[Appendix to the Tenth Volume of the Monthly Review Enlarged.] A Short Description of Carnicobar”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume X, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, page 509",
"text": "They roaſt a fowl, by running a piece of wood through it, by way of ſpit, and holding it over a briſk fire, until the feathers are burnt of, when it is ready for eating, in their taſte.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1793, Arthur Young, “1788 [chapter]”, in Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France. […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Dublin: Printed for Messrs. R. Cross, […], →OCLC, page 192",
"text": "An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1817, [William Kitchiner], “Roasting”, in Apicius Redivivus; or, The Cook’s Oracle: […], London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, […], by J. Moyes, […], →OCLC",
"text": "When the joint to be roasted is thicker at one end than the other, place the spit slanting, so that the whole time the thickest part is nearest the fire, and also the thinnest by this means is preserved from being overmuch roasted.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1950, James Hornell, “The Greatest Eel-farm and Eel-trap in the World”, in Fishing in Many Waters, 1st paperback edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, published 2014, page 166",
"text": "The spits upon which the double sections of fish are transfixed are iron rods about 7 feet long, provided with an L-shaped handle at one end, so that when hung on a bracket at either side of the fireplace it may be turned by hand.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire."
],
"links": [
[
"thin",
"thin#Adjective"
],
[
"metal",
"metal#Adjective"
],
[
"wooden",
"wooden"
],
[
"rod",
"rod"
],
[
"skewered",
"skewer#Verb"
],
[
"cooking",
"cook#Verb"
],
[
"fire",
"fire#Noun"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "broach"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1843, William W[illiams] Mather, “Marine Alluvial Detritus”, in Geology of New-York (Natural History of New York; part 4), part I (Comprising the Geology of the First Geological District), Albany, N.Y.: Printed by Carroll & Cook, […], →OCLC, page 28",
"text": "Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a sand-spit extends from the west shore, obliquely, nearly across. [...] The materials are transported by the currents and waves, and deposited to form this spit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Publications, number 94, United States Hydrographic Office, →OCLC, page 228, column 2",
"text": "Chiao Shih, 44 feet high, lies about 1/2 mile southeastward of Ko-li, a 199-foot islet, that lies close off the south end of Pei-kan-t’ang Tao and is connected to it by a stoney spit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Robert C. Graham, A. Toby O’Geen, “Geomorphology and Soils”, in Harold Mooney, Erika Zavaleta, editors, Ecosystems of California, Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, part 1 (Drivers), page 63, column 1",
"text": "Playa margins are dominated by relict shoreline features, such as wave-cut terraces, depositional beach ridges, and offshore bars and spits.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula."
],
"links": [
[
"low",
"low#Adjective"
],
[
"narrow",
"narrow#Adjective"
],
[
"pointed",
"pointed#Adjective"
],
[
"sandy",
"sandy"
],
[
"peninsula",
"peninsula"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "saffūd",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سَفُّود"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "sīḵ",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سِيخ"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "sīḵ",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "سيخ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "šampʿur",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "շամփուր"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "šiš",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "շիշ"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "şeş",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "шеш"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "šiš",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шиш"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ast"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kǎoròuchā",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "烤肉叉"
},
{
"code": "syc",
"lang": "Classical Syriac",
"roman": "šapūdā",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ܫܦܘܕܐ"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "špíz"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rožeň"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spid"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spit"
},
{
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "mꜥq",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "m-a:q-F18"
},
{
"code": "eve",
"lang": "Even",
"roman": "hilun",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "хилун"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "varras"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broche"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espeto"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šampuri",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "შამფური"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spieß"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "soúvla",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "σούβλα"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "obelós",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ὀβελός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "nyárs"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grillteinn"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "steikingarteinn"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bior"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bior rósta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "girarrosto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spiedo"
},
{
"alt": "くし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kushi",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "串"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "verū"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "iesms"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ražen",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ражен"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "huki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "mataahi"
},
{
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "silpon",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "силпон"
},
{
"code": "nog",
"lang": "Nogai",
"roman": "sis",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "сис"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broche"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spidd"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spidd"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spitu"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şiş",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "شیش"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "sih",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "سیخ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "six",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "سیخ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "gardenâ",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "گردنا"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "belesk",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "بلسک"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rożen"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espeto"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "frigare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vértel",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ве́ртел"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šampúr",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шампу́р"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rožón",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рожо́н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ра́жањ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "rážanj"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brocheta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asador"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spett"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"word": "şiş"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "rožén",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "роже́н"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "šampúr",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шампу́р"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spéo"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "dil"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "qomayaq",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "ҡомаяҡ"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "qomayıl",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "ҡомайыл"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kasá",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "каса́"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tesen nos",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "тесен нос"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāzuǐ",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "沙嘴"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zuǐ",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "嘴"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tange"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "maasäär"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "kynnäs"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "baixío"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nehrung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Landzunge"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oddi"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tangi"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nērija"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zemes strēle"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "nerija"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "provlak",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "провлак"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "tūpahipahi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mierzeja"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ponta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kosá",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коса́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barra"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kosá",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коса́"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula",
"word": "länalineg"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *spey-",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *spid-",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable",
"en:Bodily fluids",
"en:Landforms"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-",
"4": "*spey-"
},
"expansion": "[Template:root]",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete"
},
"expansion": "spete",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spette"
},
"expansion": "spette",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spyte"
},
"expansion": "spyte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*spitō",
"t": "rod; skewer; spike"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*spituz",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; stick"
},
"expansion": "*spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spid-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *spid-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spey-",
"t": "sharp; sharp stick"
},
"expansion": "*spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "Spitt",
"t": "pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spid"
},
"expansion": "Danish spid",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spett",
"t": "skewer; spit; type of crowbar"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spiten",
"t": "to put on a spit; to impale"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spite"
},
"expansion": "spite",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spießen",
"t": "to skewer, to spear"
},
"expansion": "German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "spissen"
},
"expansion": "spissen",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "now dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(now dialectal)",
"name": "qualifier"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spidde"
},
"expansion": "Danish spidde",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).\nThe verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)) and Danish spidde.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spitting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to spit a loin of veal",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1991, I. F. La Croix, E. A. S. La Croix, T. M. La Croix, “Malaŵi: Climate and Geography”, in Orchids of Malaŵi: The Epiphytic and Terrestrial Orchids from South and East Central Africa, Rotterdam, Brookfield, Vt.: A[ugust] A[imé] Balkema, page 4, column 2",
"text": "Fried or roast mice, spitted on sticks like kebabs, are often offered for sale by the roadside.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Hilary Mantel, “Falcons: Wiltshire, September 1535”, in Bring Up the Bodies, London: Fourth Estate, part 1",
"text": "[H]e has seen kitchens thrown into turmoil, and he himself has been down in the grey-green hour before dawn, when the brick ovens are swabbed out ready for the first batch of loaves, as carcasses are spitted, pots set on trivets, poultry plucked and jointed.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object."
],
"links": [
[
"impale",
"impale"
],
[
"spit",
"#Noun"
],
[
"pierce",
"pierce"
],
[
"sharp",
"sharp#Adjective"
],
[
"object",
"object#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Gary Alan Wassner, chapter 36, in The Twins, Port Orchard, Wash.: Windstorm Creative; republished London: Gateway, 2014",
"text": "[H]e saw that the fires scattered all over the massive camp were emitting greasy fumes from the carcasses of the burning animals spitted over the flames.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit."
],
"links": [
[
"use",
"use#Verb"
],
[
"cook",
"cook#Verb"
],
[
"attend to",
"attend to"
],
[
"food",
"food"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "naboždam",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "набождам"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "spidde"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "embrocher"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espetar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espichar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "aufspießen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "nyársra húz"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "huki"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şişlemek",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "شیشلمك"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espetar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nasaživatʹ",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "насаживать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "espetar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to impale on a spit",
"word": "şişlemek"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes",
"Iu Mien terms in nonstandard scripts",
"Requests for review of Crimean Tatar translations",
"Requests for review of Khmer translations",
"Requests for review of Swedish translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable",
"en:Bodily fluids",
"en:Landforms"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "chew the meat and spit out the bones"
},
{
"word": "chew up and spit out"
},
{
"word": "Equatorial spitting cobra"
},
{
"word": "not know whether to spit or go blind"
},
{
"word": "spit blood"
},
{
"word": "spit box"
},
{
"word": "spit bucket"
},
{
"word": "spit chips"
},
{
"word": "spit facts"
},
{
"word": "spit feathers"
},
{
"word": "spit fire"
},
{
"word": "spit in someone's face"
},
{
"word": "spit in the ocean"
},
{
"word": "spit in the wind"
},
{
"word": "spit into the wind"
},
{
"word": "spit it out"
},
{
"word": "spit nails"
},
{
"word": "spit on"
},
{
"word": "spit out"
},
{
"word": "spit-poison"
},
{
"word": "spit straight facts"
},
{
"word": "spit tacks"
},
{
"word": "spitter"
},
{
"word": "spit the dummy"
},
{
"word": "spitting chips"
},
{
"word": "spitting cobra"
},
{
"word": "spitting distance"
},
{
"word": "spitting image"
},
{
"word": "spitting spider"
},
{
"word": "spit up"
},
{
"word": "swap spit"
},
{
"word": "trust someone as far as one can spit"
},
{
"word": "trust someone as far as one could spit"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "speten",
"4": "spē̆ten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spē̆ten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spǣtan",
"t": "to spit; to squirt"
},
"expansion": "Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "spitte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spyttan",
"3": "",
"pos": "",
"t": "to spit",
"tr": ""
},
"expansion": "spyttan (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sp(y)ēw"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spyū"
},
"expansion": "*spyū",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitelen",
"t": "to spit out, expectorate"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spew"
},
"expansion": "English spew",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spütte"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spütte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spotta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spotta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "spýta"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse spýta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Faroese spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spyt",
"t": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spyt (“spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "saliva, spittle, sputum"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spet",
"t": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spet (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "speten",
"3": "spē̆ten",
"4": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spē̆ten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spetel",
"3": "spē̆tel",
"4": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spiit"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spiit",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The verb is from Middle English spē̆ten, spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”); or from Middle English spit, spitte, spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spittan, spyttan (“to spit”), both from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw, *spyū, ultimately imitative; compare Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”) and English spew. The English word is cognate with Danish spytte (“to spit”), North Frisian spütte, Norwegian spytte (“to spit”), Swedish spotta (“to spit”), Old Norse spýta (Faroese spýta (“to spit”), Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)).\nThe noun is derived from the verb; compare Danish spyt (“spit”), Middle English spit, spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”), spet (“saliva, spittle”), spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”), North Frisian spiit.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spitting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spat",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spat",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spit",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spit",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "spits",
"2": "spitting",
"3": "spat",
"past2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spat or spit)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1974, James A[lbert] Michener, “Drylands”, in Centennial, New York, N.Y.: Random House; Dial Press trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 2015, page 931",
"text": "When the mighty duststorm, silent and terrifying, first engulfed her, she thought she would choke. Spitting dust from her dry lips, she ran indoors to protect the children, and found them coughing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus, London: Hutchinson, page 25; republished London: Arrow Books, Random House Group, 1995, pages 39–40",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 October 21, “Network News: Belly Mujinga”, in Rail, page 11",
"text": "The 47-year-old had allegedly been spat at by a passenger at London Victoria who said he had the virus, although a subsequent police investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"evacuate",
"evacuate"
],
[
"saliva",
"saliva"
],
[
"mouth",
"mouth#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc."
],
"senseid": [
"en:expectorate"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "expectorate"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a hot pan spitting droplets of fat",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2015 May, James Axler [pseudonym; Rik Hoskin], chapter 6, in Hell’s Maw (Outlanders; 73), Don Mills, Ont.: Gold Eagle Books, Worldwide Library, page 73",
"text": "The wag zigzagged across the field, bumping over ruts in the soil and tangled grass as a stream of bullets followed them from the high-mounted railguns, spitting sparks from the metal sides of the wag.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"emit",
"emit"
],
[
"expel",
"expel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English impersonal verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1851 December 24, Henry David Thoreau, “December, 1851 (Æt[atis] 34)”, in Bradford Torrey, editor, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, volumes III (September 16, 1851 – April 30, 1852), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company, published 1906, →OCLC, page 153",
"text": "It spits snow this afternoon. Saw a flock of snowbirds on the Walden road. I see them so commonly when it is beginning to snow that I am inclined to regard them as a sign of a snow-storm.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rain or snow slightly."
],
"links": [
[
"rain",
"rain#Verb"
],
[
"snow",
"snow#Verb"
],
[
"slightly",
"slightly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(impersonal) To rain or snow slightly."
],
"tags": [
"impersonal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1915, Amélie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy), chapter XXXIX, in Shadows of Flames: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC, page 240",
"text": "\"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!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Mark Gatiss, “The Mystery of the Two Geologists”, in The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff (A Lucifer Box Novel), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, 2005, page 23",
"text": "\"Gentleman? You?\" he spat.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To utter (something) violently."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"utter",
"utter"
],
[
"violently",
"violently"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To utter (something) violently."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat."
],
"links": [
[
"make",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"sound",
"sound#Noun"
],
[
"angry",
"angry"
],
[
"cat",
"cat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Giselle Zado Wasfie, So Fly, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin",
"text": "A group of black guys were spitting rhymes in the corner, slapping hands and egging one another on.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation, page 138",
"text": "[…] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rap, to utter."
],
"links": [
[
"rap",
"rap#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"dancing",
"hip-hop",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English humorous terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's spitting for sure.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth."
],
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"spit facts",
"spit facts"
],
[
"truth",
"truth"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth."
],
"tags": [
"humorous",
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spoeg"
},
{
"code": "xag",
"lang": "Aghwan",
"roman": "ću",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "𐕉𐕒𐕡"
},
{
"code": "akl",
"lang": "Aklanon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tupea"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "pështyj"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṣaqa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "بَصَقَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bazaqa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "بَزَقَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tafala",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تَفَلَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taffa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تَفَّ"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taff",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "تَفّ"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taffal",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "تَفَّل"
},
{
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bzaq",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "بزق"
},
{
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tfal",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "تفل"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʿkʿel",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "թքել"
},
{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ascuchiu"
},
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "thu pelüa",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "থু পেলোৱা"
},
{
"code": "av",
"lang": "Avar",
"roman": "tuze",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "тузе"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tüpürmək"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "tököröw",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "төкөрөү"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "txistu egin"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pljavácʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плява́ць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "napljavácʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "наплява́ць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pljúnucʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "плю́нуць"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "thutu phela",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "থুতু ফেলা"
},
{
"code": "bcl",
"lang": "Bikol Central",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "lustab"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pljúja",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плю́я"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hráča",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "хра́ча"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "htwe:",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ထွေး"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escopir"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escopinar"
},
{
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tofa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔtán",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐痰"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cuì",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "啐"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kǎ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "咯"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "噴放"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pēnfàng",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "喷放"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔkǒu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐口"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "plivnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "plivat"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spytte"
},
{
"code": "duu",
"lang": "Drung",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "lai"
},
{
"code": "duu",
"lang": "Drung",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "dvbeq"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spuwen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spugen"
},
{
"code": "cjm",
"lang": "Eastern Cham",
"roman": "kachuh",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ꨆꨌꨭꩍ"
},
{
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "tf",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "t:f-D26"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "kraĉi"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sülitama"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sülgama"
},
{
"code": "eve",
"lang": "Even",
"roman": "tumņidaj",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "тумнидай"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sylkeä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "once",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sylkäistä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"continuative"
],
"word": "syljeskellä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "cracher"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spudâ"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "cuspir"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "dapurtxeba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "დაფურთხება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gadapurtxeba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "გადაფურთხება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mipurtxeba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "მიფურთხება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spucken"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "speiwan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ftýno",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "φτύνω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ptúō",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "πτύω"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "yarak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "יָרַק"
},
{
"code": "mba",
"lang": "Higaonon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ilub"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "thūknā",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "थूकना"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "köp"
},
{
"code": "hrx",
"lang": "Hunsrik",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spucke"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "hrækja"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "meludah"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sylkiä"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "caith seile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputare"
},
{
"code": "ium",
"lang": "Iu Mien",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "bitv"
},
{
"alt": "つばをはく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsuba o haku",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "つばを吐く"
},
{
"alt": "はく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "haku",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "吐く"
},
{
"code": "zku",
"lang": "Kaurna",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tadlibandi"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tükırtu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "түкірту"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tükıru",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "түкіру"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sdɑh",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ស្ដោះ"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khaak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខាក"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khaek",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខែក"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khcĕək",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខ្ជាក់"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "khpuu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ខ្ពុរ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chimeulbaetda",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "침을뱉다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "baetda",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "뱉다"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tif kirin"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "tükürüü",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "түкүрүү"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "khāk",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ຂາກ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "khāi",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ຄາຍ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ຖຸຽ"
},
{
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spjauti"
},
{
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "špļaut"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spuō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "conspuō"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spļaut"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spļauties"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spjauti"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúka",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плу́ка"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "‘rka",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "‘рка"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ludah"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "beżaq"
},
{
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "cifelembi",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ᠴᡳᡶᡝᠯᡝᠮᠪᡳ"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tuha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tuwha"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "thukṇe",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "थुकणे"
},
{
"code": "mnw",
"lang": "Mon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ကၠာတ်"
},
{
"code": "mnw",
"lang": "Mon",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ချဟ်"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nulimax",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "нулимах"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "chihcha"
},
{
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "topin-",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "топин-"
},
{
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "hutra mare"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spytte"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escupir"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escopir"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "thukiba",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ଥୁକିବା"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spǣtan"
},
{
"code": "os",
"lang": "Ossetian",
"roman": "tu kænyn",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ту кӕнын"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tof kardan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تف کردن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pluć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "splunąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "plunąć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "cuspir"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "thuqay"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "aqtuy"
},
{
"code": "raj",
"lang": "Rajasthani",
"roman": "thūkṇau",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "थूकणौ"
},
{
"code": "rap",
"lang": "Rapa Nui",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "aanu"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "scuipa"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spidar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plevátʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плева́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pljúnutʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "плю́нуть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naplevátʹ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "наплева́ть"
},
{
"code": "ksw",
"lang": "S'gaw Karen",
"roman": "hṭoö phgeḥ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ထူးပှဲာ်"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "ṣṭhīvati",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ष्ठीवति"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пљу̏вати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pljȕvati"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputari"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "sputazzari"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "scraccari"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pľuť"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pljuvati"
},
{
"code": "so",
"lang": "Somali",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tufid"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pluwaś"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "plunuś"
},
{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pluwać"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "escupir"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spotta"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "dumura"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "tuf kardan",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "туф кардан"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "tuppu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "துப்பு"
},
{
"code": "tsg",
"lang": "Tausug",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "lumura"
},
{
"code": "tet",
"lang": "Tetum",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tafui"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kàak",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ขาก"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tǔi",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ถุย"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tükürmek"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tüýkürmek"
},
{
"code": "uga",
"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "wpṯ",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "𐎆𐎔𐎘"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pljuváty",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "плюва́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pljúnuty",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "плю́нути"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "napljuváty",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "наплюва́ти"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "thūknā",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تھوکنا"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "tükürmek",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "تۈكۈرمەك"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "tupurmoq"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "nhổ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "khạc nhổ"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spukön"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "poeri"
},
{
"code": "mbb",
"lang": "Western Bukidnon Manobo",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ileb"
},
{
"code": "mww",
"lang": "White Hmong",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "nto"
},
{
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "sillee",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "силлээ"
},
{
"code": "yua",
"lang": "Yucatec Maya",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "ch'iin"
},
{
"code": "zea",
"lang": "Zealandic",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spieë"
},
{
"code": "zea",
"lang": "Zealandic",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "spoege"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "-phimisa"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.",
"word": "-fela"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Collins English Dictionary",
"Oxford Dictionaries"
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes",
"Iu Mien terms in nonstandard scripts",
"Requests for review of Crimean Tatar translations",
"Requests for review of Khmer translations",
"Requests for review of Swedish translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable",
"en:Bodily fluids",
"en:Landforms"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cough and a spit"
},
{
"word": "cuckoo spit"
},
{
"word": "dummy spit"
},
{
"word": "frog spit"
},
{
"word": "spit and baling wire"
},
{
"word": "spit and image"
},
{
"word": "spit and polish"
},
{
"word": "spit-and-sawdust"
},
{
"word": "spit and vinegar"
},
{
"word": "spitball"
},
{
"word": "spit bath"
},
{
"word": "spit brothers"
},
{
"word": "spit-cup"
},
{
"word": "spit curl"
},
{
"word": "spit guard"
},
{
"word": "spit hood"
},
{
"word": "spit mask"
},
{
"word": "spit shine"
},
{
"word": "spitshine"
},
{
"word": "spit take"
},
{
"word": "spittoon"
},
{
"word": "spit-up"
},
{
"word": "spit wad"
},
{
"word": "toad-spit"
},
{
"word": "very spit of"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "speten",
"4": "spē̆ten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spē̆ten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spete",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spǣtan",
"t": "to spit; to squirt"
},
"expansion": "Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "spitte",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spyttan",
"3": "",
"pos": "",
"t": "to spit",
"tr": ""
},
"expansion": "spyttan (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sp(y)ēw"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*spyū"
},
"expansion": "*spyū",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitelen",
"t": "to spit out, expectorate"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spew"
},
"expansion": "English spew",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spütte"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spütte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian spytte (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spotta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spotta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "spýta"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse spýta",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Faroese spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "spýta",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "spyt",
"t": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Danish spyt (“spit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spytte",
"t": "saliva, spittle, sputum"
},
"expansion": "spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spitten",
"t": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spitten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spet",
"t": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spet (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "speten",
"3": "spē̆ten",
"4": "to spit"
},
"expansion": "spē̆ten (“to spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spetel",
"3": "spē̆tel",
"4": "saliva, spittle"
},
"expansion": "spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spiit"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spiit",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The verb is from Middle English spē̆ten, spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spǣtan (“to spit; to squirt”); or from Middle English spit, spitte, spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spittan, spyttan (“to spit”), both from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw, *spyū, ultimately imitative; compare Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”) and English spew. The English word is cognate with Danish spytte (“to spit”), North Frisian spütte, Norwegian spytte (“to spit”), Swedish spotta (“to spit”), Old Norse spýta (Faroese spýta (“to spit”), Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)).\nThe noun is derived from the verb; compare Danish spyt (“spit”), Middle English spit, spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”), spet (“saliva, spittle”), spē̆tel (“saliva, spittle”), North Frisian spiit.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "spit (countable and uncountable, plural spits)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "There was spit all over the washbasin.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Connie Colwell Miller, “How Spit Happens”, in The Slimy Book of Spit (The Amazingly Gross Human Body), Mankato, Minn.: Edge Books, Capstone Press, page 19",
"text": "Sometimes your body doesn't make as much spit as it needs. When you sleep, your salivary glands take a bit of a snooze too. You're still making spit, but not as much. This is why your mouth feels dry when you wake up.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 108",
"text": "[T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Saliva, especially when expectorated."
],
"links": [
[
"Saliva",
"saliva"
],
[
"expectorated",
"expectorate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "expectoration"
},
{
"word": "spittle"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015, Col Buchanan, “Return of the King”, in The Black Dream, London: Tor Books",
"text": "It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow."
],
"links": [
[
"spitting",
"#Verb 2"
],
[
"light",
"light#Adjective"
],
[
"fall",
"fall#Noun"
],
[
"rain",
"rain#Verb"
],
[
"snow",
"snow#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1840, The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine, page 405",
"text": "[…] according to some of the elders of the village, young Philip was the “very spit” of his father, as they once remembered him […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Kate Konopicky, “Worn-Out Genes”, in A Woman Of No Importance: A Tenderly Observed, Ruthlessly Honest and Hilariously Funny Memoir about the Joys and Horrors of Motherhood, Ebury Publishing",
"text": "Lots of people claimed she was the image of her father (about the same number who saw her as the dead spit of her mother), which was a little disconcerting.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image)."
],
"links": [
[
"spitting image",
"spitting image#English"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:likeness"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of slam (“card game”)"
],
"links": [
[
"slam",
"slam#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "card game",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "slam"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "aa",
"lang": "Afar",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "tufo"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "buzāq",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بُزَاق"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʿukʿ",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "թուք"
},
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "thu",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "থু"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "tökörök",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "төкөрөк"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "slína",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слі́на"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sljúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слю́нка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pljúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плю́нка"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escopina"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escopinyada"
},
{
"code": "ccc",
"lang": "Chamicuro",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "sakola"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tùmo",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "吐沫"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"code": "dlm",
"lang": "Dalmatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spoit"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spyt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "speeksel"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spuug"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spuwsel"
},
{
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "tf",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "t:f«D154»"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "sylki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crachat"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "spudačh"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "esputo"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "napurtxi",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ნაფურთხი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "purtxi",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ფურთხი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Speichel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Spucke"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "spaiskuldr",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌳𐍂"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ptúon",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πτύον"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "rok",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "רוק"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "nyál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "köpet"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ludah"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "seile"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sileog"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sputo"
},
{
"alt": "つばき, tsubakí, つば, tsuba",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "唾"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "idu"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "kecoh"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chim",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "침"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tif"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sputum"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spļāviens"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "siekalas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúkanka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плу́канка"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плу́нка"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ludahan"
},
{
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "cifenggu",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "ᠴᡳᡶᡝᠩᡤᡠ"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "hūare"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "thūk",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "थूक"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "chihchitl"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spytt"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spytt"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "escup"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spātl"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "tükürük",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "توكوروك"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tof",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "تف"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Kjwiel"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ślina"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cuspe"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "saliva"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "scuipat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sljuná",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слюна́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sljúnka",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"feminine"
],
"word": "слю́нка"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "smugaid"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "слина"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "пљувачка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pljuvačka"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "escupida"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spott"
},
{
"code": "rif",
"lang": "Tarifit",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kuffu"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "pitke"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "tükürük"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "slýna",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сли́на"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "nước bọt"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "spukot"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "raetchon"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scraetchete"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "poer"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "saliva",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fliber"
},
{
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "sil",
"sense": "saliva",
"word": "сил"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pljavók",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пляво́к"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pljuene",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "плюене"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "plivnutí"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "sylkeminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crachement"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šepurtxeba",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "შეფურთხება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spritzer"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "yerika",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "יריקה"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "köpés"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "tifkirin"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plúkanje",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "плу́кање"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "splunięcie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuspida"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plevók",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плево́к"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pljuvók",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плюво́к"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "instance of spitting",
"word": "spuk"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a synonym of slam (“card game”)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schlemm"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a synonym of slam (“card game”)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Durchmarsch"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rǎmene",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ръмене"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "rain",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sprühregen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "rain",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nieselregen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "rain",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nieselregen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "rain",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sprühregen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a light fall of rain or snow",
"word": "szemerkélő eső/hó"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable",
"en:Bodily fluids",
"en:Landforms"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "speet"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speet",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "spêdt"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German spêdt",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spatt"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spatt",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spet"
},
"expansion": "spet",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spitten",
"t": "to dig"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten (“to dig”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan",
"t": "to dig with a spade"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spetten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch spetten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spat"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spat",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spitte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.\nThe verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”), possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (plural spits)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1791 January 10, Samuel Dunn, Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; […], volume IX, London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son, […]; and sold by Messrs. [James] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 42",
"text": "They [the potatoes] ſtood till October, when they were taken up, and a large pye made of them; which is laying them up in a heap, and covering them with ſtraw and a ſpit of earth.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1792 January 1, Lewis Majendie, Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; […], volume X, London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son, […]; and sold by Messrs. [James] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 4",
"text": "The firſt plantation, containing four thouſand ſix hundred oaks, was formed on part of the ancient Home Park, ſurrounding this Caſtle: the ſoil was dug one full ſpit, and the turf inverted; [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1832, “Horticulture”, in David Brewster, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, [...] In Eighteen Volumes, 1st American edition, volume X, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by Joseph and Edward Parker. […], →OCLC, page 545, column 1",
"text": "Soil of the usual depth may be trenched two spit (spadeful) deep; and if this is done every third year, it is evident that the surface which has produced three crops will rest for the next three years; thus giving a much better chance of constantly producing healthy and luxuriant crops, and with one half the manure that would otherwise be requisite.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "[2006], NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers, “Production and Management of Medicinal Plants on Farms”, in Cultivation and Processing of Selected Medicinal Plants, Delhi: Asia Pacific Business Press, page 82",
"text": "Proceed as for the single dig but start by removing two spits of topsoil to the far diagonal corner and also one spit of subsoil. Turn the exposed subsoil from hole two into hole one. Incorporate organic matter.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade."
],
"links": [
[
"depth",
"depth"
],
[
"blade",
"blade"
],
[
"spade",
"spade#Noun"
],
[
"soil",
"soil#Noun"
],
[
"digging",
"dig#Verb"
],
[
"layer",
"layer#Noun"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1795 March, Ezra L’Hommedieu, “Observations on Manures”, in Transactions of the Society, for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, Instituted in the State of New-York, 2nd revised edition, volume I, Albany, N.Y.: Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, […], published 1801, →OCLC, part III (Transactions, &c.), page 235",
"text": "Dig your clay with a ſpade in ſpits of ordinary bricks; dig two, three, eight, ten or twenty loads of clay, more or leſs as you pleaſe; [...] then take theſe ſpits of clay, after they are tried in the ſun, ſurround your pile of wood with them, [...]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful."
],
"links": [
[
"amount",
"amount#Noun"
],
[
"holds",
"hold#Verb"
],
[
"spadeful",
"spadeful"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "edin bel dǎlbočina",
"sense": "depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging",
"word": "един бел дълбочина"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Spatentiefe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spaten"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable",
"en:Bodily fluids",
"en:Landforms"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "speet"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch speet",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "spêdt"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German spêdt",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "spit",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Low German spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spatt"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spatt",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spet"
},
"expansion": "spet",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spit"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spit",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spitten",
"t": "to dig"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spitten (“to dig”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "spittan",
"t": "to dig with a spade"
},
"expansion": "Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spitu",
"t": "rod on which meat is cooked; spit"
},
"expansion": "spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spetten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch spetten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "speten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German speten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "spitten",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "spitten"
},
"expansion": "Low German spitten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "spat"
},
"expansion": "North Frisian spat",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "spitte"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian spitte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "3"
},
"expansion": "³",
"name": "sup"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.\nThe verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”), possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spitting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spitted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1769, “PLOUGH”, in The Complete Farmer: Or, A General Dictionary of Husbandry in All Its Branches; […], 2nd corrected and improved edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, […], →OCLC, column 2",
"text": "[T]he double plough, by taking faſt hold of the mould, throws all back again; and if the vegetables are not effectually earthed up, which may be the caſe after double ſpitting the intervals, then running the double plough over again, completes the buſineſs, and ſtrangely toſſes about and mellows the mould.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough."
],
"links": [
[
"dig",
"dig#Verb"
],
[
"spade",
"spade#Noun"
],
[
"turn",
"turn#Verb"
],
[
"soil",
"soil#Noun"
],
[
"plough",
"plough#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1882 May, J. Alexander Fulton, “Delaware Peach Orchards”, in Joseph H. Reall, editor, Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume 2, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Agricultural Review Company, […], →OCLC, page 124",
"text": "When the [peach] seed is procured it is either \"spitted in\" with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To plant (something) using a spade."
],
"links": [
[
"plant",
"plant#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1758 September 2–5, “A Course of Experiments and Improvements in Agriculture, […]”, in The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post, volume IV, number 263, London: Sold by J. Wilkie, […], →OCLC, page 219, column 1",
"text": "We left the ground, of field of loam, by ſuppoſition under two ſorts of managements; the one part very rough, and the other made as fine as circumſtances would allow; the former ploughed the uſual depth, the other double ſpitted; [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1882 May, J. Alexander Fulton, “Delaware Peach Orchards”, in Joseph H. Reall, editor, Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume 2, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Agricultural Review Company, […], →OCLC, page 124",
"text": "Then the ground is \"spitted\" or spaded in about six or eight inches deep, as a garden is for a crop of vegetables.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dig, to spade."
],
"links": [
[
"spade",
"spade#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "delve"
}
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-spit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg/En-us-spit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-spit.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "spit"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). 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.