"spithole" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spitholes [plural]
Etymology: spit + hole Etymology templates: {{com|en|spit|hole}} spit + hole Head templates: {{en-noun}} spithole (plural spitholes)
  1. Euphemistic form of shithole. Tags: euphemistic, form-of Form of: shithole
    Sense id: en-spithole-en-noun-~X~A-aMn Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45
  2. (slang) One's mouth. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Mouth
    Sense id: en-spithole-en-noun-A2gpA3Di Disambiguation of Mouth: 31 69 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1999 November 15, Tracey Levin, “HEB / False advertsing”, in houston.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "HEB is a spithole and I wouldn't go in there if they were giving everything away.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 March 6, Joseph Oberlander, “Is doing evil towards a good end still evil?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "Unfortunately, it is true in this Godless spit-hole that we have created. Money. Greed. Total lack of firm and hard rules.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 August 12, AAS, “Q update, part deux”, in rec.pets.cats.community (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "YES!!! Supposedly yet another ailment contracted in that spithole. Q was only there a week, think of how sickly the other animals that they adopt are there! The poor things. They kept telling me that its sleepy stuff in his eye. Sleepy stuff my a$$.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 October 30, Savers by Ceg, “how to obtain GPS coordinates?”, in alt.satellite.gps.magellan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "The property is in a small area called Buzzard Gap...about 5 miles out of Wilburton, OK. It's a little spithole in the middle of nowhere. If you're familiar with Robber's Cave Park, the property is about 10 miles south of there.",
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          "ref": "1999 March 6, damian, “I'm new here, but not Green!”, in alt.recovery.na (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "Plug up yer spithole. Yer nothin but a pile of shitty peacock feathers. Sew up the hole in yer tights and get outta here. Go over to araa where someone will listen to ya.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 17, Electrician, “Vick The Dick II”, in alt.sports.football.pro.atl-falcons (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "You can look at Vick and just know he doesn't an IQ much above the low dual digits. And once he opens that ignorant spithole of his - well all doubt is removed.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Tim Seeley, Hack/Slash, issue 24",
          "text": "Unh. Shit. Drank too much fizz, bro. Think I'm gonna blow from my spithole and my fartbox.",
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          "ref": "1999 November 15, Tracey Levin, “HEB / False advertsing”, in houston.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "HEB is a spithole and I wouldn't go in there if they were giving everything away.",
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          "ref": "2000 March 6, Joseph Oberlander, “Is doing evil towards a good end still evil?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "Unfortunately, it is true in this Godless spit-hole that we have created. Money. Greed. Total lack of firm and hard rules.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2002 August 12, AAS, “Q update, part deux”, in rec.pets.cats.community (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
          "text": "YES!!! Supposedly yet another ailment contracted in that spithole. Q was only there a week, think of how sickly the other animals that they adopt are there! The poor things. They kept telling me that its sleepy stuff in his eye. Sleepy stuff my a$$.",
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          "ref": "2006 October 30, Savers by Ceg, “how to obtain GPS coordinates?”, in alt.satellite.gps.magellan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
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          "text": "Plug up yer spithole. Yer nothin but a pile of shitty peacock feathers. Sew up the hole in yer tights and get outta here. Go over to araa where someone will listen to ya.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 17, Electrician, “Vick The Dick II”, in alt.sports.football.pro.atl-falcons (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Tim Seeley, Hack/Slash, issue 24",
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        }
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