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.

Concepts

spit

saliva

expectorate

spittle

skewer

spit out

sputter

spit up

sputum

vomit

puke

splutter

sprinkle

spit at

drool

cape

dribble

hiss

eject

cough up

impale

ptyalise

ptyalize

spew

spue

spitting

headland

spit on

throw up

cast

pitch

throw

toss

sandbank

blow

spout

spurt

foam

slobber

spear

yap

expectoration

patter

pitter-patter

spatter

tongue

broach

fuff

spadeful

pierce

stab

drizzle

gargle

mucus

slime

promontory

gob of spit

spew out

point

planum

loathe

pin

poker

emit

spray

eject saliva from the mouth

bursting

gushing

puff

spraying

spurting

squirting

froth

spike

eject from the mouth

ejected

roasting-spit

cleaning rod

roasting-jack

spade

sword

saver

frill

shoal head

ness

naze

clear one’s throat

cobra

hawk

puff out

hawk up

attack

abuse

forge

hit

play

poke

shoot

roasting jack

mull

peninsula

drivel

brochette

bib

twist around

boil over

bubble over

burst out

overflow

splash

barb

gorse

prick

thorn

gob

vomit blood

say

vent

part

put asunder

Spit

hockle

spettle

spits

cough

keep quiet

grill

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɪt/

Etymology

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.