noun. A slender, pointed rod on which meat is impaled for roasting.

noun. A narrow point of land extending into a body of water.

transitive verb. To impale on or as if on a spit.

noun. Saliva, especially when expectorated; spittle.

noun. The act of expectorating.

noun. Something, such as the frothy secretion of spittle bugs, that resembles spit.

noun. A brief, scattered rainfall or snowfall.

noun. The perfect likeness.

intransitive verb. To eject from the mouth.

intransitive verb. To eject as if from the mouth.

intransitive verb. To emit suddenly and forcefully.

intransitive verb. To eject matter from the mouth; expectorate.

intransitive verb. To express contempt or animosity, especially by ejecting matter from the mouth.

intransitive verb. To make a hissing or sputtering noise.

intransitive verb. To rain or snow in light, scattered drops or flakes.

phrasal verb. To vomit. Used especially of a baby.

To thrust a spit through; pierce, transfix, or impale with or as with a spit: as, to spit a loin of veal.

To string on a stick and hang up to dry, as herring in a smoke-house.

To roast anything on a spit; attend to a spit; use a spit.

noun. A slender bar, sharply pointed at the end, to be thrust through meat which is to be roasted in front of the fire.

noun. A sword.

noun. The obelisk or dagger () used as a reference-mark.

noun. A small point of land running into the sea, or a long narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea.

noun. In weaving, the spindle or wire which holds the cop, spool, or pirn in the shuttle.

To eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.

To fall in scattered drops, as rain.

To make a noise as if spitting, like an angry cat.

To eject from the mouth; spew; especially, to eject as or with saliva: as, to spit blood.

To spade; plant by spading.

noun. A spade; hence, the depth of a spade in the earth; a spading or spadeful.

noun. What is ejected from the mouth; saliva; spume.

noun. The act of spitting: as, a cat gives an angry spit.

noun. In entomology:

noun. The spume of certain inseets; a frothy, fleecy, or waxy substance secreted by various homopterous bugs from specialized pores scattered over the general surface of the body.

noun. An insect which produces such spume: as, the cuckoo-spit, Ptyelus spumarius. See spittle-insect.

noun. A light fall of rain or snow; especially, rain or snow falling in light gusts or scattered drops or flakes.

noun. Image; likeness.

noun. A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

noun. A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea.

noun. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.

intransitive verb. To attend to a spit; to use a spit.

transitive verb. To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale.

transitive verb. To spade; to dig.

transitive verb. To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.

transitive verb. To eject; to throw out; to belch.

noun. The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.

intransitive verb. To throw out saliva from the mouth.

intransitive verb. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

intransitive verb. to insult grossly; to treat with contempt.

intransitive verb. undefined

"who had ridden on the shoulders of the crowd in the first year of Alfonsín's government, was by the end of his term spit upon by his own"

to spit sixpences  to spit white  upon  

to spit upon  

cape  cough out  cough up  ejection  emit  

Brit  Grit  Kit  Pitt  Pritt  

fang  hiss  ledge  outcropping  phlegm  

andiron  assibilate  assibilation  auger  bayonet  

spat  spitted  spitting  

spat  spits  spitted  spitting