spit

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
2. A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.

Verb

1. To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
2. To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.

Verb

1. To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
2. To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
3. To rain or snow slightly.
4. To utter (something) violently.
5. To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
6. (slang) To rap, to utter.
7. (slang) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.

Verb

1. To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
2. To plant (something) using a spade.
3. To dig, to spade.

Concepts

cracher

salive

crachat

vomir

broche

bave

embrocher

jeter

crachement

langue

brochette

cordon littoral

bruiner

enfiler

se racler la gorge

point

cobra

expectoration

postillon

faux

cap

baver

crachiner

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).
The verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)) and Danish spidde.