spitnoun詞源 1/spɪt/

• 1

  A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.

  • They roaſt a fowl, by running a piece of wood through it, by way of ſpit, and holding it over a briſk fire, until the feathers are burnt of, when it is ready for eating, in their taſte.
  • An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]
• 2

  geographynatural-sciencesA generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.

  • Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a sand-spit extends from the west shore, obliquely, nearly across. [...] The materials are transported by the currents and waves, and deposited to form this spit.
  • Or perhaps he may see a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit of shingle, against the blue sea, [...]

spitverb詞源 1/spɪt/

• 1

  To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.

  • to spit a loin of veal
  • [W]hy in a moment looke to ſee / The blind and bloody Souldier, with foule hand / Deſire the Locks of your ſhrill-ſhriking Daughters: / Your Fathers taken by the ſiluer Bears, / And their moſt reuerend Heads daſht to the Walls: / Your naked Infants ſpitted vpon Pykes, / Whiles the mad Mothers, with their howles confus'd, / Doe breake the Clouds, [...] / What ſay you? Will you yeeld, and thus auoyd? / Or guiltie in defence, be thus destroy'd.
• 2

  To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.

  • She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.
  • Moll. Ha's my Mother ſeene him yet. / Frail[ty]. O no, ſhee's—ſpitting in the Kitchin.

spitverb詞源 2/spɪt/

• 1

  To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.

  • And they ſpit upon him [Jesus Christ], and tooke the reed, and ſmote him on the head.
  • Aquil[ina]. […] pray vvhat Beast vvill your VVorship pleaſe to be next? / Anto[nio]. Novv I'l be a Senator agen, and thy Lover little Nicky Nacky! [He ſits by her.] Ah toad, toad, toad, toad! ſpit in my Face a little, Nacky—ſpit in my Face prithee, ſpit in my Face, never ſo little: […]
• 2

  To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.

  • a hot pan spitting droplets of fat
  • The wag zigzagged across the field, bumping over ruts in the soil and tangled grass as a stream of bullets followed them from the high-mounted railguns, spitting sparks from the metal sides of the wag.
• 3

  To rain or snow slightly.

  • "There! now, Strickland, I know all about what you intend to say, and therefore need not be told; but see, it spits with rain, 'tis late, Graham's turned in, let's below; […]
  • It had been "spitting" with rain for the last half-hour, and now it began to pour in good earnest.
• 4

  To utter (something) violently.

  • "Why, you little emasculated Don Juan— You—" he spat an unmentionable name— "d'you think I'd fight one of your tin-soldier farces with you? Clear out!"
  • "Gentleman? You?" he spat.
• 5

  To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.

• 6

  slangdancinghip-hophobbiesTo rap, to utter.

  • A group of black guys were spitting rhymes in the corner, slapping hands and egging one another on.
  • Didn't matter if I was out there spittin' on the mic or breaking ankles on the court, the best feeling in the world was performing in front of thousands of fans who couldn't stop screaming my name.
• 7

  slang(in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.

  • He's spitting for sure.

spitnoun詞源 2/spɪt/

• 1

  Saliva, especially when expectorated.

  • There was spit all over the washbasin.
  • Sometimes your body doesn't make as much spit as it needs. When you sleep, your salivary glands take a bit of a snooze too. You're still making spit, but not as much. This is why your mouth feels dry when you wake up.
• 2

  An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.

  • It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain.
• 3

  Likeness; used, usually in set phrases (see spitting image) of a person who exactly resembles someone else.

  • […] according to some of the elders of the village, young Philip was the “very spit” of his father, as they once remembered him […]
  • Lots of people claimed she was the image of her father (about the same number who saw her as the dead spit of her mother), which was a little disconcerting.
• 4

  Synonym of slam (“card game”).

spitnoun詞源 3/spɪt/

• 1

  The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.

  • They [the potatoes] ſtood till October, when they were taken up, and a large pye made of them; which is laying them up in a heap, and covering them with ſtraw and a ſpit of earth.
  • The firſt plantation, containing four thouſand ſix hundred oaks, was formed on part of the ancient Home Park, ſurrounding this Caſtle: the ſoil was dug one full ſpit, and the turf inverted; [...]
• 2

  The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.

  • Dig your clay with a ſpade in ſpits of ordinary bricks; dig two, three, eight, ten or twenty loads of clay, more or leſs as you pleaſe; [...] then take theſe ſpits of clay, after they are tried in the ſun, ſurround your pile of wood with them, [...]

spitverb詞源 3/spɪt/

• 1

  dialectalTo dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.

  • [T]he double plough, by taking faſt hold of the mould, throws all back again; and if the vegetables are not effectually earthed up, which may be the caſe after double ſpitting the intervals, then running the double plough over again, completes the buſineſs, and ſtrangely toſſes about and mellows the mould.
• 2

  dialectalTo plant (something) using a spade.

  • When the [peach] seed is procured it is either "spitted in" with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery.
• 3

  dialectalTo dig, to spade.

  • We left the ground, of field of loam, by ſuppoſition under two ſorts of managements; the one part very rough, and the other made as fine as circumſtances would allow; the former ploughed the uſual depth, the other double ſpitted; [...]
  • Then the ground is "spitted" or spaded in about six or eight inches deep, as a garden is for a crop of vegetables.

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