spit
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
Đồng nghĩa: broach
- 2.
(geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
- 3.
(uncountable)Saliva, especially when expectorated.
There was spit all over the washbasin.
Đồng nghĩa: expectoration, spittle
- 4.
(countable)An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)Likeness; used, usually in set phrases (see spitting image) of a person who exactly resembles someone else.
- 6.
(uncountable)Synonym of slam (“card game”).
Đồng nghĩa: slam
- 7.
The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
- 8.
The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
to spit a loin of veal
- 2.
(transitive)To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.
- 3.
(ambitransitive)To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
Đồng nghĩa: expectorate
- 4.
(ambitransitive)To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
a hot pan spitting droplets of fat
- 5.
(impersonal)To rain or snow slightly.
Does it rain? — It's nobbut spitting a bit.
- 6.
(ambitransitive)To utter (something) violently.
- 7.
(intransitive)To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- 8.
(slang, transitive)(transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
- 9.
(humorous, intransitive, slang)(in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
He's spitting for sure.
- 10.
(dialectal, transitive)To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- 11.
(dialectal, transitive)To plant (something) using a spade.
- 12.
(dialectal, intransitive)To dig, to spade.
Đồng nghĩa: delve
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ine-pro The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte, 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 *speyd-, *spey- (sharp; sharp stick). The English word is cognate with spit, Spitt, spid, spett.