spittoon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A receptacle for spit (saliva); especially, one used by people using chewing tobacco or snuff.
    — In the only arm-chair which the apartment boasted—one of the legs of which was shorter than the other three, and to remedy that defect was ingeniously stuck into an iron spittoon—sat the young man Mr. Pascoe had come to visit, very unlike, it must be confessed, any "portraits of a gentleman" one ever saw in the exhibition of the Royal Academy.

词形变化

spittoons plural spitoon alternative

词源

Etymology tree
English spit
English -oon
English spittoon
From spit + -oon.
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