spit

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

saliva

expectorate

spittle

skewer

spit out

sputter

sputum

spit up

vomit

spit at

cape

drool

splutter

puke

sprinkle

dribble

hiss

spue

spitting

eject

ptyalise

spit on

ptyalize

impale

cough up

headland

spew

sandbank

broach

fuff

gob of spit

slobber

slime

expectoration

spatter

spear

spew out

mucus

foam

blow

spout

patter

spurt

pierce

stab

gargle

pitch

throw

throw up

pitter-patter

tongue

👅

spadeful

toss

point

yap

drizzle

planum

promontory

cast

vomit blood

eject saliva from the mouth

eject from the mouth

roasting-spit

shoal head

Spit

hockle

part

spettle

attack

👊

barb

bib

boil over

bubble over

bursting

burst out

cobra

cough

drivel

ejected

emit

forge

frill

froth

gob

gorse

grill

gushing

hawk

hit

keep quiet

loathe

mull

ness

overflow

peninsula

pin

play

poke

poker

prick

puff

puff out

roasting-jack

saver

say

🗣️

shoot

spade

spike

spits

splash

spray

spraying

spurting

squirting

sword

thorn

hawk up

twist around

vent

clear one’s throat

naze

put asunder

roasting jack

brochette

abuse

cleaning rod

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: spit

Inherited from Old English: spitu

Cognate with Dutch: spit

Cognate with Low German: Spitt

Cognate with Danish: spid

Cognate with Swedish: spett

Inherited from Middle English: spiten

Cognate with Middle Dutch: speten

Cognate with Dutch: speten

Cognate with Middle Low German: speten

Cognate with Low German: spitten

Cognate with German: spießen

Cognate with Danish: spidde

Inherited from Middle English: speten

Inherited from Old English: spǣtan

Inherited from Old English: spittan

Cognate with Middle English: spitelen

Cognate with Middle English: spitten

Cognate with English: spew

Cognate with Danish: spytte

Cognate with Northern Frisian: spütte

Cognate with Norwegian: spytte

Cognate with Swedish: spotta

Cognate with Old Norse: spýta

Cognate with Faroese: spýta

Cognate with Icelandic: spýta

Cognate with Danish: spyt

Cognate with Middle English: spit

Cognate with Northern Frisian: spiit

Cognate with Low German: spit

Cognate with Northern Frisian: spatt

Cognate with Western Frisian: spit

Inherited from Middle English: spitten

Cognate with Middle Dutch: spetten

Cognate with Dutch: spitten

Cognate with Northern Frisian: spat

Cognate with Western Frisian: spitte

In summary

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.