spit

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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.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/spɪt/

Etimologia

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.