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Spit Out

Definition: Spit Out

Spit Out

Verb

1. Spit up in an explosive manner.

2. Utter with anger or contempt.

3. Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Spit Out

Synonyms: cough out (v), cough up (v), expectorate (v), spit (v), spit up (v), splutter (v), sputter (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Spit Out

English words defined with "spit out": barbecuingExcreate, ExsputoryScreable, Spawling. (references)
Etymologies containing "spit out": Screable. (references)

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Modern Usage: Spit Out

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Then after about 15 minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike! (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Zaphod, old mate, I trust you about as far as I could comfortably spit out a rat. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

A real heavyweight water buffalo type who could chew his way through a concrete wall and spit out the other side covered with lime and chalk and look good in doing it. (Where the Buffalo Roam; writing credit: Hunter S. Thompson)

Normal folks, they don't spit out bullets when you shoot 'em, no sir. (Near Dark; writing credit: Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Red)

Lyrics

I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Spit Out

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Modern Translation: Spit Out

Language Translations for "spit out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nxjerr nga goja (rattle off, reel off). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyplivnout (spit). (various references)

   

German

  

ausspucken (cough out, cough up, disgorge, expectorate, pour out, regurgitate, spew out, spit, to disgorge, to spit out). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kiköp (expectorate, spat, to spew, to spit, to spout). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

吐き出す (to spit out, to vomit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はきすてる (to spit out), はき す (to clean out, to release, to spit out, to sweep out, to vomit). (various references)

   

Manx

  

spooytey (cascade, spout, squirt, squirting), spooyteragh (bad beer, cascade, spout, squirt). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itspay outay

   

Russian 

  

выплюнуть. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sipati kletve, ispljunuti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escupir (bleed, cough up, gob, spit). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spotta ut (expectorate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), tükürmek (expectorate, spit, spit at smb., spit on smb.), tükürerek çıkarmak, basmak (affix, attack suddenly, break into, catch, come on, come upon, flood, flow, foray, impress, imprint, irrupt, jam, letter, press, print, publish, raid, sink, spit, stamp, stencil, step, step on, stomp, strike, strike off, transfer, tread, tread on, utter, weigh), bağırarak söylemek (call out, scream out, shout, shout out, squall out), açıklamak (account, account for, account for smth., clarify, clear, clear up, declare, declassify, deliver oneself, develop, dilate, dot the i's, elucidate, enucleate, evidence, explain, explicate, expound, express, get across, give smth. publicity, impart, intimate, lay open, make smth. clear, plead, render, set up, show, show forth, state, unclose, unfold, unveil). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gagyrynmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

випльовувати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Spit Out

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

expuens, expuentes, expueris, expuerunt, expuit, spuetque, spuisset. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Spit Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: utopist.

Words within the letters "i-o-p-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: outsit.

-2 letters: pious, posit, pouts, putti, putto, putts, situp, spout, stopt, stoup, stout, toits, topis, touts.

-3 letters: opts, opus, oust, outs, piso, pits, pois, post, pots, pout, puts, putt, soup, spit, spot, stop, suit, tips, tits, toit, topi, tops, tost, tots, tout, tuis, tups, tuts.

-4 letters: its, ops, opt, out, pis, pit, piu, poi.

 Words containing the letters "i-o-p-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outstrip, poutiest, utopists.

 

+2 letters: outpaints, outpities, outpoints, outsprint, outstrips, pitchouts, printouts, proustite, tutorship, utopistic.

 

+3 letters: autopilots, autotypies, multisport, outpitches, outsprints, pirouettes, prosciutti, prosciutto, prostitute, proustites, stipulator, tutorships.

 

+4 letters: amputations, computerist, deputations, disputation, impetuosity, imputations, multipiston, opportunist, outpatients, outsprinted, outstripped, pittosporum, postnuptial, postulating, postulation, pothuntings, poussetting, pretentious, prosciuttos, prostituted, prostitutes, prostitutor, punctations, pustulation, repetitious, reputations, stipulation, stipulators, stipulatory.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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