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spit-poison en · NOUN

Etymology

From spit + poison.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, obsolete) A malicious person.
   • […]a vile person comes to be understood, and then to be abhorred, and to be pointed at as he passes by with such kind of elogies as these; "There goes a person for whom no one breathing was ever the better, but many ruined, blasted, and undone; the scourge of society, a spit-poison, a viper, and to be abandoned and shunned by all companies, like a mortal infection[…]" a. 1716, Robert South, “Posthumous Sermon L”, in Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, volume 2, London: Reeves & Turner, published 1877, page 424:

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