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Definition: Spittoon |
SpittoonNoun1. A receptacle for spit (usually in a public place). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spittoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Synonym: SpittoonSynonym: cuspidor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier, buck-basket, hopper, maund, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket, whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle, utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And what work do they do? Scent his handkerchiefs and hand him his spittoon after dinner. (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Bir; George Grossmith) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Whitcomb's Dental "Fountain" Spittoon. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sailors and a Marine on board USS Saratoga (CV-3), during the 1930s, arranged in a group resembling that of an 1880s era "Old Salts" photograph. See Photo # NH 58319 for the view that inspired this one. Note use of a cake pan in place of the spittoon of the 1880s photo. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Spittoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spittoon" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
spittoon | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spittoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | enë pështyme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المبصقة وعاء يبصق فيه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | плювалник (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | plivátko (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spyttekumme til rindende vand (spittoon mouth rinser), spyttekumme (spittoon mouth rinser), spyttekrus (sputum bottle), spyttekop (sputum bottle), expectoratskaal (sputum bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kwispedoor (cuspidor), spuwbak (cuspidor), spuugbak (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kraĉujo (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تف دادن , سلف دان , خلطدان (Cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sylkyastia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crachoir (sputum bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spucknapf (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πτυελοδοχείο (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרקק", רקקית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | köpőláda, köpőcsésze (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | peludah (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sputacchiera (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 痰壺 (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"つぼ (cuspidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shelleydane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ittoonspay escarrador (sputum bottle). (various references) scuipãtoare. (various references) плевательница (cuspidor). (various references) pljuvaonica (cuspidor). (various references) escupidera (cuspidor). (various references) spottkopp (cuspidor). (various references) tükürük hokkası (cuspidor). (various references) плювальниця (cuspidor). (various references) cái ống phóng, cái ống nhỏ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spittoon": spittoons. (additional references) | |
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"Spittoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slitton, soittoon, spatoon, Speeton, spitoon, spitton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: options, potions. | |
-2 letters: option, pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, points, poison, postin, potion, pottos, spinto, stotin. | |
-3 letters: opsin, ottos, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, piton, point, poons, posit, potto, snoop, snoot, spoon, stint, stoop, stopt, tints, toits, toons, toots, topis, topoi, topos. | |
-4 letters: into, ions, nips, nits, onto, oops, oots, opts, otto, pins, pint, pion, piso. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: outpoints, potations, spittoons. | |
+2 letters: footprints, stenotopic, toponymist. | |
+3 letters: adoptionist, antiprotons, coaptations, omnipotents, opportunist, posttension, postulation, potshotting, prostration, protagonist, protections, taphonomist, toponymists. | |
+4 letters: adoptionists, competitions, computations, constipation, contraptions, deportations, exportations, fetoproteins, importations, luteotropins, mountaintops, operationist, opportunists, optimisation, ornithopters, periodontist, phonotactics, photosetting, photostating, postabortion, postelection, posthypnotic, postposition, postromantic, posttensions, postulations, potentiators, prostitution, prostrations, protagonists, protestation, protonations, protractions, somatotropin, stereopticon, taphonomists, thyrotropins, toploftiness, trapshooting. | |
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