spit
verb
[ spɪt ]
• eject saliva forcibly from one's mouth, sometimes as a gesture of contempt or anger.
• "Todd spat in Hugh's face"
• (of a fire or something being cooked) emit small bursts of sparks or hot fat with a series of short, explosive noises.
• "the bonfire crackled and spat"
• light rain falls.
• "it began to spit"
spit
noun
• saliva, typically that which has been ejected from a person's mouth.
• an act of spitting.
Origin:
Old English spittan, of imitative origin.
spit
noun
• a long, thin metal rod pushed through meat in order to hold and turn it while it is roasted over an open fire.
• "chicken cooked on a spit"
• a narrow point of land projecting into the sea.
• "a narrow spit of land shelters the bay"
spit
verb
• put a spit through (meat) in order to roast it over an open fire.
• "he spitted the rabbit and cooked it"
Origin:
Old English spitu, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch spit and German Spiess .
spit
noun
• a layer of earth whose depth is equal to the length of the blade of a spade.
• "break up the top spit with a fork"
Origin:
early 16th century: from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German; probably related to spit2.
