spitter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who puts meat on a spit.
  2. Someone who spits.
    — Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.
  3. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp.
    — Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, pricket
  4. Someone who spits.; Someone who spits out semen during oral sex. vulgar
  5. Rapper, emcee. slang
    — On the stage with the RZA to the Gravediggaz GZA used to say I was his favorite spitter
  6. Synonym of spitting cobra. slang
  7. A small shower (of rain), a spatter.
    — A zigzag of lightning fretted the eastern horizon in a brilliant greenish flash, sharply outlining the sea-line; and, as a solemn, hollow, distant peal reverberated, a spitter of rain fell. There was not a breath of wind, and the whack-whacking and spits of flame from the warships came threatening over the darkening sea.
  8. Synonym of spitball.
    — Coach says no throwing any spitters.
  9. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.
    — with a spitter in the console of his Camaro

词形变化

spitters plural spittard alternative spitters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
spitters are quitters
相关词
sprayer spritzer

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English spit
English -er
English spitter
From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English spit
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English spitter
From spit (verb) + -er.
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