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Definition: Spit |
SpitNoun1. A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea. 2. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches. 3. A skewer for holding meat over a fire. 4. The act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva). Verb1. Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer". 2. Utter with anger or contempt. 3. Rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick.". 4. Drive a skewer through; "skewer the meat for the BBQ". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Computing | SPIT Language for IBM 650. (See IT). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Geography | A long narrow accumulation of sand and shingle with one end attached to the land, the other projecting into the sea or across the mouth of an estuary. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | English (hork). (references) |
Slang | Hork. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SPIT. He is as like his father as if he was spit out of his mouth; said of a child much resembling his father. SPIT. A sword. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Spit is:
- Spit (landform): in physical geography, a section of land that extends into a body of water
- Spit_(card_game): A card game.
- see saliva
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spit."
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Spit, also known as Speed, is a game for two players in which the aim is to get rid of your cards as fast possible. The players do not take turns - physical speed and alertness are required to play faster than your opponent. On each deal, by being first to play all your stock pile cards you can reduce the number of cards you have in the next deal. By being successful for several deals you can eventually get rid of all your cards, thereby winning the game.
Players and Cards
Two players only, using a regular 52 card deck. (the older the better, because the cards get abused!!). Shuffle well and divide the cards equally - 26 to each player.
The Layout
Each player now deals a layout consisting of five stock piles in a row. The first stock pile has 1 card, the second 2 ... the fifth 5. Deal these piles face down and then turn the top card of each stock pile face up (or deal them that way in the first place). That leaves a pile of 11 cards in each player's hand, where they must stay! These are the spit cards, and the players should not look at them.
The Play
After both players acknowledge readiness, both shout "spit" while turning over the top card in their hand (their first spit card). These two cards are placed side by side between the players' stock piles. These two cards and the cards that will be played on top of them are the spit piles. The full layout should now look something like this:
The players now play simultaneously as fast as they want. The object is to get rid of all the cards in your stock piles onto the spit piles. Using only one hand, you can either:
play the face up card from the top of one of your stock piles onto either spit pile. To play a card on a spit pile it has to be next in sequence up or down. Suit and color do not matter. Cards can turn the corner - for example on an ace you can play a two or a king; if one (or more) of your stock piles has its top card face-down, turn the top card of such a pile face-up; move a face up card from the top of a stock pile into an empty stock pile space if there is one - note that you can never have have more than five stock piles. Example: In the diagram, player A can play the ace or the three, and then turn up the next card in that stock pile. Playing the 3 is inadvisable as it would allow player B to play the 4. Player B can play the 8 and then it is a race as to whether B manages to play the 9 before A can play 7. If a position is reached where neither player can play (i.e. none of the exposed stock pile cards can be played to either of the spit piles and it is not possible to turn up another stockpile card after moving cards into spaces if necessary) then both players shout "spit" again, and each turns up their next spit card and places it on top of the spit pile they started. Play then continues as before.
If neither player can play and one player has no spit cards left, then the other player spits alone on only one spit pile. The player can choose either pile, but having chosen, must continue to spit on that pile whenever no play is possible until one player runs out of stock cards. In the event that both players run out of spit cards, the player with the fewer stock cards remaining has choice of spit pile.
New Layout
When one of the players manages to get rid of all their stock pile cards, both players choose a spit pile by slapping it with their hand - normally both players will try to slap whichever pile they think is smaller. If the two players choose different piles, each player takes the pile they chose; if both choose the same pile, the player who gets there first (i.e. whose hand is underneath) takes the chosen pile and the other player takes the other pile. The player who still has stock cards also picks these up. Both players then shuffle their cards well, and deal new layouts as before from the cards they have, but one player will probably have more spit cards left in hand than the other. When ready, both players shout "spit" and play continues as before.
If one player has fewer than 15 cards, that player will not be able to deal a complete set of stock piles. In this case the player deals the cards into five stock piles as far as they will go, and turns over the top card of each. However, such a player can no longer spit, so there will only be one spit pile, started by the other player.
End of the game
When playing with only one spit pile, the first player to get rid of their stock cards does not take any cards from the centre; the other player takes the single spit pile and the unplayed stock pile cards. When playing with only one spit pile, if the player with no spit cards in hand also gets rid of their layout cards first, then that player has no cards left at all and has won the game.
Variations
Stock pile layout Some people play with only four stock piles - containing one, two, three and four cards.
Some people deal eleven cards to the centre stock pile, and the other four have just one card each.
In David Shapp's version, the player who first gets rid of all of their stock pile cards has a free choice of which spit pile to take. There is no slapping - the player will simply take the pile they judge to be smaller. The other player then takes the other (probably larger) spit pile and their remaining stock cards and both players deal a new layout. From the feedback I have received, the alternative version in which the spit piles are chosen by slapping is more widespread.
Rules for playing on Spit piles
Some play that the cards played on the spit piles must alternate in colour (i.e. on a black 5 you can only play a red 6 or a red 4).
Some play that if on your stock piles you have two cards of equal rank showing (such as two nines), you can move one of these cards on top of the other, thereby exposing a face-down card that can be turned face up, or creating a space.
Version with five card hand
Some people play that each player has a hand of five cards, held concealed from the other player, and a single face down stockpile. You play cards from your hand to the face up spit piles, and whenever you play a card from your hand you can draw one from your stock pile, so that you keep five cards in your hand. In this version the face-down spit cards are kept either side of the face-up spit piles.
To begin, you deal face down in the centre two piles of ten spit cards with two single cards between them, and a stock pile of 15 cards in front of each player, so that the layout is like this:
15 cards(Some play with 20 cards in each stock instead of 15 and just 5 cards in the piles at each end of the centre row instead of 10.) Each player draws a five card hand from the top of their 15 card stock, and when they are ready the two single cards are simultaneously flipped face up. Both players then play from their 5 card hands to the two centre piles - either the next higher or the next lower card in rank. If you run out of plays but have fewer than 5 cards in hand, draw the cards from your stock to replenish your hand to 5 cards, and continue playing any cards you can.10 cards 1 card 1 card 10 cards
15 cards
When neither player can play, though both have 5 cards in hand, a new spit card is simultaneously flipped from each end pile of the centre row onto the two centre piles. If the reserves of spit cards in these end piles run out, shuffle all the cards except the top one from each of the two centre piles and place them face down on either side of the centre cards to form new reserves.
When your stock runs out you continue to play from your hand without replenishing it. When your hand runs out as well, you have won the deal; you score one point for each card in your opponent's hand and stockpile. The first player whose score reaches or exceeds an agreed amount (for example 25 points) wins the game.
Spit for more then 2 players
It is possible to play spit with more than 2 players. You need one deck for every 2 players. When one players exhausts his stock cards, he chooses one of the spit piles. Then, the remaining players continue for 2nd, 3rd, etc. When each player but one has exhausted his stock, then a new hand begins. The game ends as in the 2-player version. When one player doesn't have enough cards to deal his stock, there is an empty spit pile, and if that player wins the hand, he wins the game.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spit (card game)."
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In physical geography, a spit is a deposition landform found off coasts. A spit is a type of bar or beach that develops where a re-entrant occurs, such as at a cove, bay, ria, or river mouth. Spits are formed by the movement of sediment (typically sand) along a shore by a process known as longshore drift. Where the direction of the shore turns inland (reenters) the longshore current spreads out or dissipates. No longer able to carry the full load, much of the sediment is dropped. This causes a bar to build out from the shore, eventually becoming a spit.
Water currentss and waves moving from the sea, at 90° to the direction of sediment flow move the sediments towards the land creating a recurve.
If the supply of sediment is interrupted the sand at the neck (landward side) of the spit may be moved towards the head, eventually creating an island. If the supply isn't interrupted, and the spit isn't breached by the sea (or, if across an estuary, the river) the spit may become a bar, with both ends joined to land, and a lagoon behind the bar. If an island lies offshore near where the coast changes direction, and the spit continues to grow until it connects the island to the mainland it is called a tombolo.
Examples
Australia
- Long Spit, TA
- Wollongong, NSW
Canada
- Long Point, Ontario
Crimea
- Arabat Spit, Black Sea
United Kingdom
- Dawlish Warren, Devon
- Hurst Castle, Hampshire
- Spurn, Yorkshire
- Sandbanks, Dorset
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spit (landform)."
Synonyms: SpitSynonyms: expectoration (n), saliva (n), spitting (n), spittle (n), tongue (n), patter (v), pitter-patter (v), ptyalize (v), skewer (v), spatter (v), spew (v), spit out (v), sprinkle (v), spue (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: spitted (geography). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool. |
Opening | Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in. |
River | Rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle. |
Sharpness | Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca. |
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Crosswords: Spit |
| English words defined with "spit": barbecue, barbecuing, barbeque, Broacher ♦ Cuckoo spit, Cuckoo spittle, cuspidor ♦ Excreate, Exsputory ♦ Frog hopper, Froth insect ♦ go around ♦ Hemachatus haemachatus ♦ revolve, ringhals, rinkhals, Roasting jack, rotate, rotisserie ♦ Screable, Smokejack, Spawling, Spet, spit out, spitball, Spitted, spitter, spitting snake, spittle insect, spittoon, splutter, Sputative, sputter ♦ To a turn, Toad spittle, turnspit ♦ Wood sore. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spit": COOK, BARBECUE, Cuspidor ♦ Exhort ♦ Gabardine' ♦ hork, HP-SUX ♦ IBM 650, Internal Translator ♦ SPIT FIRE, Spitting, Spitting for Luck. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spit": steak. (references) |
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Screenplays | I didn't want to get spit on me. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) 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) People watching would spit at them (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) With a woman working here, we wont be able to spit on the floor anymore (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) For my planet's sake I spit my last breath at thee (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) | |
Lyrics | Spit tha game undercover (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K) Now That I got a girl, my Ex wanna holla and spit (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) Just spit me out (December; performing artist: Collective Soul) Spit spit (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child) I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I Spit on Your Corpse! (1974) Spit McPhee (1988) Hell Spit Flexion (1983) | |
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 | Cleanup of a sandy spit adjacent to Southwest Pass levee following oil spill. This area is used extensively as cattle pasture despite its inaccessibility from land. Cattle are brought in by barge. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Morse River Inlet showing tidal marsh showing prograding of the barrier spit. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Looking over the spit at Gig Harbor to a fog-enshrouded Point Defiance. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Looking past the spit at Gig Harbor to a barge-load of pine bark headed for to Steilacoom. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A view of Tacoma and Point Defiance from the spit at Gig Harbor. Debris lines on beach mark the extent of tides in the area. The ferry boat is proceeding from Tacoma to Vashon Island. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Moonrise over Gig Harbor as salmon fishermen try their luck in the shallows off the spit. Pleasure boaters are returning to harbor as the day ends. Mt. Rainier is visible in the left center. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Dixon Bay, clean-up activities at Sandy Spit. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Coconut plantation on coral spit of high volcanic island. Credit: Small World. |
 | Fishing from the rocks at the North Spit. Credit: J. Brende. |  | Ducks at North Spit. Credit: J. Brende. |
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 | Vomit; regurgitate; regurgitating; barf; be seasick; be sick; belch; bring up; disgorge; dry heave; emit; expel; gag; heave; hurl; keck; lose it; puke; regurgitate; retch; ruminate; spew; spit up; throw up; upchuck. | | Spit; joke; childish; childlike; foolish; frivolous; infantile; infantine; juvenile; kid stuff; naive; pedomorphic; petty; prekindergarten; puerile; silly; unsophisticated; young; youthful; immature. |
| Ahem; hem; spitting; spit. | | Volt; voltage; electricity; spark; atom; beam; fire; flare; flicker; gleam; glint; glitter; glow; hint; jot; nucleus; ray; scintilla; scintillation; scrap; sparkle; spit; trace; vestige; dangerous; glitter; glint; sparkle; sparkling. |
| Ahem; hem; spitting; spit. | | Ahem; hem; spitting; spit. |
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Diogenes of Sinope | In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | After which I was hunted, hounded, pursued, persecuted, slandered, railed at, spit upon, cursed, proscribed |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on by renegade catholics |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | [She spits at him] Why dost thou spit at me |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. |
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| "Spit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 49.41% of the time. "Spit" is used about 425 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 49.41% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.12% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 15.76% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.18% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 3.06% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.24% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.24% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 425 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spit": be the spit of smb. ♦ be the spit of smb.'s father ♦ black spit ♦ colliers'black spit ♦ cuckoo spit ♦ dead spit ♦ Frog spit ♦ Froth spit ♦ hawk and spit ♦ lamb on the spit ♦ mutton roasted on the spit ♦ roasting on a spit ♦ roasting spit ♦ spit and image of ♦ spit and polish ♦ spit at ♦ spit at smb. ♦ spit ball ♦ spit baller ♦ spit curl ♦ spit fire ♦ spit it out ♦ spit it out! ♦ spit of land ♦ spit on ♦ spit on smb. ♦ spit out ♦ spit phlegm ♦ spit smb. in the eye ♦ spit up ♦ spit upon ♦ spit upon smb. ♦ spit with rage ♦ To spit on ♦ to spit upon. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "spit": spit-and-sawdust, spit-boy, spit-in-your-eye, spit-level, spit-roasted, spit-roasting, spit-shower, Spit-venom. | |
Ending with "spit": cuckoo-spit, sand-spit, to-spit, two-spit. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spit | 294 | it knot lyrics slip spit | 14 |
i spit on your grave | 111 | spit tobacco | 14 |
love spit love | 69 | death spit | 14 |
spit or swallow | 66 | baby spit up | 13 |
spit fire | 53 | porpoise spit | 13 |
card game spit | 46 | roasting spit | 12 |
spit it out | 43 | girl spit | 12 |
spit fetish | 41 | ball spit | 12 |
pig roast spit | 39 | love love now soon spit | 11 |
dungeness spit | 34 | affect as dental health spit tobacco well | 10 |
spit shine | 29 | the homer spit | 10 |
bug spit | 28 | pitts spit | 10 |
spit cum | 26 | spit vomit | 9 |
pig spit | 25 | it lyrics spit | 9 |
roast spit | 25 | card game online spit | 9 |
game spit | 20 | lamb spit | 8 |
barbecue spit | 19 | swapping spit | 8 |
pit spit | 18 | cooking spit | 8 |
pig roasting spit | 17 | play spit | 8 |
love love lyrics spit | 15 | boot shine spit | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "spit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | spuug. (various references) | |
Albanian | shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, stab, stick, sting), pështymë (saliva, spittle, sputum), pështyj (expectorate, splutter), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), ngul (bite into, dig, drive, drive in, fix, jab, nail, pin down, plant, plunge, post, press in, put, sink, stick, thrust, wrap up), kërcej (bounce, bound, capriole, cavort, dance, hop, jump, leap, prance, skip, spring), hell (barbecue, broach, roasting jack, skewer), gjuhë toke (tongue), fus në hell. (various references) | |
Arabic | ذبد, بصق (expectorate, shell out, spitting, splutter, sputter), بصقة, بقبق (bubble, burble, gurgle), شوى بالسيخ (skewer), رشاش اللعاب يخرج مع الكلام, رذاذ (dribble, drizzle, perfusion, spray), ريالة (salivation, slobber), بصاق (sputum), أمطار خفيفة, لفظ (articulate, articulation, discharge, eject, ejection, emission, emit, enunciate, enunciation, expel, pronounce, pronunciation, say, vocalization, vocalize), عمق (deepen, depth, heighten, profoundly, profoundness, profundity), سفد, سيخ (skewer), سفود (brochette, skewer), تمطر السماء رذاذا, قطعة أرض (area, land, lot, parcel, piece, piece of land, plot, shred, tract), لعاب (dribble, saliva, slaver, slobber, spittle), أضرم النار (impinge, kindle, set on fire). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | леко преваляване, дълъг подводен бряг, изричам злобно, плюнка (expectoration, saliva, spittle, sputum), плюя (expectorate), пращя (burst, crackle, crepitate), пробождам с шиш, пръскам (bespatter, frizz, scatter, shed, shoot, spatter, splash, sprinkle, squirt, throw, throw about), дълбочина един бел, бел (digger, shovel, spade), сипя заплахи, набождам с шиш, голяма прилика, шиш (broach, skewer), фуча (hoot, scream, sough, whiz, whizz), храча (expectorate), храчене (expectoration), храчка (expectoration, gob, spittle, sputum), ръмя (spot), пускам мастило. (various references) | |
Chinese | 啐 (sip), "液 (saliva, salivary). (various references) | |
Czech | sliny (spittle), slina (saliva, slaver, slobber, spittle), vyplivnout (spit out), výbìžek (spur), rožeò (barbecue, broach, grid, grill), prskat (hiss, sizzle, spatter, splutter, sputter), plivat (expectorate, gob), plivanec (gob, spittle), nabodnout na rožeò, mrholit (drizzle, mizzle), mžít (drizzle, mizzle), kosa (scythe), bodec (pricker, prong, Spike, tang). (various references) | |
Danish | spytte. (various references) | |
Dutch | spuwen, spugen (throw up, vomit), rochelen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | sputi, kraĉi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | spýta (salivate). (various references) | |
Farsi | تف انداختن , تف (Spittle, Sputum), سیخ کباب (Skewer), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Slot, Stab, Steek, Stick, Thrust, Transfix), خدو, اب دهان پرتاب کردن , اب دهان (Saliva, Slaver, Slobber, Spittle), شمشیر (Blade, Spurtle, Steel, Sword), دشنه (Bowieknife, Dirk, Sticker, Stiletto), بسیخ کشیدن (Broach, Truss), بزاق (Saliva, Slobber, Sputum). (various references) | |
Finnish | sylkeä (expectorate), varras. (various references) | |
French | cracher (splutter), vomir (spew), jeter. (various references) | |
German | spucken (be sick, bring up, puke, spew, splutter, throw up, to spit, vomit), Spucke (spittle), speien (belch, expectorate, spew, spout, vomit), Bratspieß (roasting spit). (various references) | |
Greek | φτύνω (cough up, expectorate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יריק" (expectoration, spitting), לירוק (expectorate, sputter), לשון יבש" (bay, gulf, inlet), לשפ" (skewer, spear), לחכך (expectorate, rub, scratch), ל"תיז אש, לטפטף (drip, ooze, spot), לרקוק (expectorate, spew), לרקק, שפו" (pointing, skewer), ריר (dribble, saliva, spittle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyárs (broach, prod, skewer, stem), köpés (expectoration, spittle), köp (spew, to blow the gaff, to expectorate, to gob, to spill one's guts, to spit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tempat memanggang, meludah (expectorate), bura (spittle), air liur. (various references) | |
Italian | sputare, spiedo (broach, skewer), saliva (saliva, spittle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 嘴 (sandbank), " (saliva, sputum), 串 (skewer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くし (comb, order around, skewer, use freely), さし (sandbank, sharpened tube for testing rice in bags), つば (brim, saliva, sputum, sword guard). (various references) | |
Korean | 가래침. (various references) | |
Manx | smuggey (snotting), smug (blubber of jellyfish, catarrh, mucus, snot, spittle), shelley (expectorate, expectoration, phlegm, saliva, slaver, spittle, sputum), gob (apex, beak, bow, bow of ship, headland, hook, jet, jut, lip of jug, mouth, muzzle, nib, nose, nosepiece, pee of anchor, point, prominence, promontory, spout), diunid kiebbey, cur er bher, ceau shelley (expectorate, salivate). (various references) | |
Maya | tuub (to spit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cuspir. (various references) | |
Romanian | scuipare (sputter), scuipãturã (spittle), scuipa (expectorate, gob, spew, sputter), salivã (drivel, gob, saliva, slaver, slobber, spittle), scuipat (drivel, gob, slaver, slobber, spittle), ploaie mãruntã (drizzle), cerne (bolt, distinguish, drizzle, riddle, screen, sieve, sift), chip (air, appearance, aspect, countenance, course, effigy, face, form, icon, image, likeness, look, manner, patina, shape, similitude, Snoot, sort, way, wise), expectora (cough, expectorate), expectoraţie (expectoration, spittle), expectorare (expectoration), frigare (broach), fulgui, bura (drizzle), manifesta dispreţ, plouã mãrunt, plouã slab, pufni (sniff, snort), pune în frigare, limbã de pãmânt (neck). (various references) | |
Russian | плевать (expectorate, spits, spitted). (various references) | |
Scottish | bior (pin, pointed, prickle, stake, thorn). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ražanj (broach, skewer), pljuvanje (spitting, spittle), pljunuti, otpljunuti, ispljuvak (sputum). (various references) | |
Spanish | escupir (bleed, cough up, gob, spit out), asador (roaster, roasting jack). (various references) | |
Swedish | stekspett (broach, roasting jack), spotta (gob), fräsa (fizz, fizzle, frizzle, Fry, hiss, mill, splutter, sputter). (various references) | |
Turkish | serpiştirmek (Dot, dredge, drizzle, intersperse, splash, splatter, sprinkle, strew, weave), salya (dribble, saliva, salivary, slaver, slobber, spittle, sputum), saçmak (besprinkle, bestrew, broadcast, disseminate, distribute, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, radiate, scatter, sow, spill, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out), 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 out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), kopya (carbon copy, copy, crib, cribbing, ditto, double, duplicate, duplication, exemplar, facsimile, image, likeness, manifold, printing out, repetition, replica, replication, repro, tracing, transcript, transcription, trot), çıtırdamak (crackle, crunch, scrunch, splutter), çiseleme (drizzle, spray, sprinkle), çiselemek (drizzle, mist, sprinkle), şiş (blown up, broach, bulge, concretion, knitting needle, needle, protuberant, rising, roasting jack, skewer, swell, swelling, tumefaction, turgescence, turgid, wart), şişe geçirmek (skewer), şişlemek (skewer), 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 out, stamp, stencil, step, step on, stomp, strike, strike off, transfer, tread, tread on, utter, weigh), bir bel boyu derinlik, cızırdamak (scratch, sizzle, splutter, sputter), denize uzanan kara parçası, çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), haykırmak (bawl, burst in, burst out, call to, cry, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, roar, rumble, rumble out, scream, shout, shout out, whoop, yell), tükürmek (expectorate, spit at smb., spit on smb., spit out), kum tepecikli kumsal, tıpatıp aynı (as like as two peas, for all the world like, replica, slavish), tıslama (hiss, hissing), tıslamak (hiss, spit at smb.), tükürük (gob, saliva, salivary, spittle, sputum), tükürme (expectoration, spitting), fokurdamak (boil, boil up, bubble, bubble up, wallop). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tьяkьrrmek, gyllyk, gagyrmak, зiю (swelling, tumor). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрілка (needle, point, pointer), рожен (broach), шпага (skewer, sword), висловлювати (bring out, discharge, enounce, express, give voice to, phrase, pronounce, put, say, set forth, signify, term, vocalize, voice), мрячити (dank, drizzle, mizzle), мокротиння (phlegm, sputum), меч (sword), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, neglect, overlook, override, scorn, scout, violate), загострений стержень, плюватися (spittle), плювати (gob, spittle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự khạc (expectoration), người giống như hệt, nước dãi cơn mưa lún phún, cơm mưa ngắn. (various references) | |
Welsh | poeri (expectorate), poer (saliva, spittle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conspuebant, conspuent, conspuere, respuere, respuistis, spuetque, spuisset, verus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai emptusanteV eiV auton elabon ton kalamon kai etupton eiV thn kefalhn autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et expuentes in eum acceperunt harundinem et percutiebant caput eius |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hall weosse þu iudea kyning. & spættonon hine. ænd namen reod ænd beotonhys heafod. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei speten on hym, and tooken a rehed, and smoot his heed. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And spitted vpon him and toke the rede and smoote him on the heed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and struck him on the head. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they put shame on him, and gave him blows on the head with the rod. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Ug ilang gipanaglud-an siya, ug unya ilang gikuha kaniya ang baston nga bagakay ug gihapak kini sa iyang ulo. |
| Croatian | Onda pljujuæi po njemu, uzimahu trsku i udarahu ga njome po glavi. |
| Danish | Og de spyttede på ham og toge Røret og sloge ham på Hovedet. |
| Dutch | En op Hem gespogen hebbende, namen zij den rietstok en sloegen op Zijn hoofd. |
| Finnish | Ja he sylkivät häntä, ottivat ruovon ja löivät häntä päähän. |
| French | Et ils crachaient contre lui, prenaient le roseau, et frappaient sur sa tête. |
| German | und spieen ihn an und nahmen das Rohr und schlugen damit sein Haupt. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo krache sou li, yo pran wozo a, yo ba l' kou nan tèt. |
| Hungarian | És mikor megköpdösék õt, elvevék a nádszálat, és a fejéhez verdesik vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka meludahi Dia, dan mengambil tongkat itu, lalu memukul Dia di kepala-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka mereka itu pun meludahi Dia, serta mengambil buluh itu memalu kepala-Nya. |
| Italian | E sputandogli addosso, gli tolsero di mano la canna e lo percuotevano sul capo. |
| Manx Gaelic | As cheau ad shellaghyn er, as ghow ad y chuirtlagh, as woaill ad eh er y chione |
| Maori | A ka tuwhaina ia e ratou, a ka mau ratou ki te kakaho, ka patua ki tona matenga. |
| Norwegian | Og de spyttet på ham og tok røret og slo ham i hodet. |
| Portuguese | E, cuspindo nele, tiraram-lhe a cana, e davam-lhe com ela na cabeça. |
| Rumanian | Wi scuipau asupra Lui, wi luau trestia wi -L bqteau kn cap. |
| Russian | Й МЕЧБМЙ ОБ оЕЗП Й, ЧЪСЧ ФТПУФШ, 'ЙМЙ еЗП П ЗПМПЧЕ. |
| Shuar | Tiar usukiarmiayi. Tura karisun jurukiar Múuknum awatiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Y escupiendo en él, tomaron la caña y le golpeaban la cabeza. |
| Swahili | Wakamtemea mate, wakauchukua ule mwanzi, wakampiga nao kichwani. |
| Swedish | Och de spottade på honom och togo röret och slogo honom därmed i huvudet. |
| Uma | Ra'uelikui-i pai' ra'ala' lua' to hi pale-na rapao' -ki woo' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spit": spital, spitals, spitball, spitballs, spite, spited, spiteful, spitefuller, spitefullest, spitefully, spitefulness, spitefulnesses, spites, spitfire, spitfires, spiting, spits, spitted, spitter, spitters, spitting, spittle, spittlebug, spittlebugs, spittles, spittoon, spittoons, spitz, spitzes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spit": cesspit, lickspit, turnspit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spit": caespitose, cesspits, despite, despited, despiteful, despitefully, despitefulness, despitefulnesses, despiteous, despiteously, despites, despiting, dispiteous, hospitable, hospitably, hospital, hospitalise, hospitalised, hospitalises, hospitalising, hospitalities, hospitality, hospitalization, hospitalizations, hospitalize, hospitalized, hospitalizes, hospitalizing, hospitals, hospitia, hospitium, inhospitable, inhospitableness, inhospitablenesses, inhospitably, inhospitalities, inhospitality, lickspits, lickspittle, lickspittles, multihospital, nonhospital, nonhospitalized, nonhospitals, posthospital, rehospitalization, rehospitalizations, rehospitalize, rehospitalized, rehospitalizes, rehospitalizing. (additional references) | |
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"Spit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ccpit, Cpti, epit, Espat, fspi, ipit, oppit, Scit, seit, sfit, shitt, sipd, sipt, S'it, slpit, soit, Soppitt, spait, spdt, spef, speg, Spesh, Sphi, spht, spi, spia, spid, spif, spift, spig, Spik, spim, spint, spinto, spip, spiq, spir, spita, spith, spix, spiz, spoit, spott, spowt, spqt, spt, spuit, srit, stip, swit, switt, syit, zipt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spit" (pronounced spi"t) |
| 3 | -p i" t | pit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pits, tips. | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: its, pis, pit, psi, sip, sit, tip, tis. | |
-2 letters: is, it, pi, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: pints, piste, pitas, piths, posit, situp, slipt, spait, spilt, spirt, spite, spits, spitz, split, sprit, stipe, stirp, strip, tapis, tipis, tipsy, topis, trips. | |
+2 letters: esprit, impost, inputs, instep, optics, paints, papist, pastie, pastil, pastis, patins, patios, patois, petsai, pewits, picots, pietas, pigsty, pilots, pinots, pintas, pintos, pipets, pipits, pistes, pistil, pistol, piston, pities, pitons, pitsaw, pivots, plaits, points, posits, postin, potsie, priest, prints, prosit, ptisan, ptosis, purist, rapist, ripest, ripost, script, septic, sippet, situps, sopite, spaits, spigot, spilth, spinet, spinto, spirit, spirts, spital, spited, spites, splint, splits, spoilt, sprint, sprite, sprits, spritz, stiped, stipel, stipes, stirps, stripe, strips, stript, stripy, stupid, tapirs, thrips, topics, tripes, tripos, tulips, tupiks, twirps, typist, upstir. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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