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spitter en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who puts meat on a spit.
  2. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp.
    • Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, pricket

Forms

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spittard alternative lexicographic
spitters Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

knobbler · brocket · pricket · knobber

spitter en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English spit Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios 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.

Meanings

  1. Someone who spits.
    • After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters. 2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107:
    • Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.
  2. (vulgar) Someone who spits. ▸ Someone who spits out semen during oral sex.
  3. (slang) Rapper, emcee.
    • What you tryna be Vito? Well there's rules to this shit Don't get clapped, y'all ain't real spitters, y'all lips chapped 2012, Joey Badass featuring Capital Steez, “Killuminati”, in 1999:
    • On the stage with the RZA to the Gravediggaz GZA used to say I was his favorite spitter 2010, Killah Priest, “Priest History”, in The 3 Day Theory:
  4. (slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.
  5. A small shower (of rain), a spatter.
    • [A] spitter of rain hit the leaves, increasing to a drenching rush. 2025 March 25, Jade Linwood, Beast, Rebellion Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
    • 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. 1916, The Wireless Age, page 19:
  6. Synonym of spitball.
    • Coach says no throwing any spitters.
  7. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.
    • with a spitter in the console of his Camaro

Forms

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spitters Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

swallower

Deriveds

spitters are quitters

Relateds

sprayer · spritzer

Synonyms

spitball · spitting cobra

Translations (8)

la spūtātor (one that spits) · pt cuspidor (one that spits) · ru плева́льщик (one that spits) · fi sylkijä (one that spits) · sh pljùvāč (one that spits) · pt cuspidora (one that spits) · ru плева́льщица (one that spits) · sh pljuvàčica (one that spits)