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Definition: Turnspit |
TurnspitNoun1. A roasting spit that can be turned. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turnspit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Turnspit |
| English words defined with "turnspit": Turnbroach. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "turnspit": Son of Dripping. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "turnspit": Turnbroach. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "turnspit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | γυρίζων τη σούφλαν, ψήστησ (roaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | guilley behr (turnspit person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urnspittay тот (alienee, bookable, briber, chooser, curler, dedicator, divider, drinker, integrator, keeker, kisser, marplot, masticator, objector, one who, regulator, reprover, skater, spoil-sport, that), кто поворачивает вертел с мясом. (various references) kebapçı, dönerci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turnspit": turnspits. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: intrust, turnips. | |
-2 letters: inputs, prints, purins, purist, rutins, sprint, stript, strunt, turnip, unrips, upstir. | |
-3 letters: input, pints, pirns, print, punts, purin, puris, putti, putts, ruins, runts, rutin, sirup, situp, spirt, sprit, spurn, spurt, stint, stirp, strip, strut, stunt, sturt, suint, tints, trips, trust, turns, turps, units, unrip. | |
-4 letters: nips, nits, nuts, pins, pint, pirn. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outsprint, printouts, turnspits. | |
+2 letters: interrupts, outsprints, sputtering, upstarting. | |
+3 letters: guttersnipe, opportunist, outsprinted, parturients, pretentious, reputations, spluttering, thumbprints, turpentines, upthrusting. | |
+4 letters: guttersnipes, interrupters, interruptors, luteotropins, opportunists, outsprinting, outstripping, parturitions, permutations, prostituting, prostitution, superstation, superstition. | |
+5 letters: acupuncturist, antipruritics, contrapuntist, corruptionist, counterpoints, guttersnipish, importunities, interruptions, luteotrophins, naturopathies, opportunistic, opportunities, perpetuations, perturbations, pretentiously, prostitutions, protactiniums, putrefactions, superfetation, supermilitant, superstations, superstitions, unpretentious, vituperations. | |
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