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misspit en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + spit.

Meanings

1. To spit badly, such as missing the location where one is aiming.
   • The stench of stale beer, acrid cigar smoke, spilt whiskey, and misspat plugs of chewing tobacco pawed her, leaving the sticky grime of a thousand miners' hands. 1990, Donald Porter, Jubilee Jim and the Wizard of Wall Street, page 120:
   • Richer than all the Orient In gold and glory, in want and woe, In self-denial and days misspent, In truth and treason in good and guilt, In ivied ruins and altars low, In battered walls and blood misspit— Glorious, gory Mexico. 1895, Jeannette Leonard Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilder, The Critic - Volume 27, page 452:
   • That my living room would no longer be littered with misspit watermelon seeds. 1975, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, page 60:

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