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Spitter

Definition: Spitter

Spitter

Noun

1. A person who spits (ejects saliva from the mouth).

2. An illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it.

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

Synonyms: Spitter

Synonyms: expectorator (n), spitball (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Spitter

Specialty definitions using "spitter": Anaconda method. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spitter

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
me and the spitter	20
pond spitter	9
fountain spitter	6
file spitter	3
spitter throw	3
spitter water	2
spitter uv	2
avi spitter	2
spitter video	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Spitter

Language		Translations for "spitter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		πτύων. (various references)

Pig Latin		itterspay

Russian		плевальщик. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Spitter

Derivations
	Words beginning with "spitter": spitters. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Spitter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tipster.
	Words within the letters "e-i-p-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: esprit, priest, ripest, sitter, sprite, stripe, stript, titers, titres, tripes, triste.
	-2 letters: peris, petit, petti, piers, piste, prest, pries, prise, ripes, rites, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprit, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tiers, tires, titer, titre, trets, tries, tripe, trips, trite.
	-3 letters: erst, ires, peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, pits, reis, reps.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: pretties, puttiers, spitters, splitter, spottier, tipsters, triplets, trippets.
	+2 letters: paltriest, pinsetter, portliest, posterity, potteries, preterits, prettiest, prettyish, privatest, proustite, splitters, sportiest, stripiest, tephrites, therapist, trapezist, triplites, trippiest, triptanes.
	+3 letters: baptistery, crepitates, extirpates, impetrates, intercepts, interprets, interrupts, introspect, operettist, orthoepist, pediatrist, permittees, permitters, persistent, pinsetters, pinspotter, pirouettes, poststrike, presentist, presetting, pretasting, preterites, pretermits, pretesting, prettifies, prettiness, prosthetic, prostitute, protesting, proustites, respotting, separatist, shipfitter, spattering, sputtering, stepsister, striptease, stroppiest, supertight, taperstick, tapestried, tapestries, therapists, tightropes, trapezists, turpitudes, typescript, typewrites.
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.

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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