What's the difference between skittle and spittle?

Skittle


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to the game of skittles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Officials said the driver weaved along the road, knocking people down “like skittles”, for at least 2km (1.2 miles).
  • (2) im gona do a documntry like super size me but with skittles.
  • (3) Trump Jr drew ire during the campaign for agreeing to an interview with a prominent white nationalist and for comparing Syrian refugees to Skittles.
  • (4) Zimmerman weighs 250lbs and had a 9mm handgun; Martin, 17, weighed 140lbs and had a packet of Skittles and a can of iced tea.
  • (5) Do the good people at Skittles think he’s still relevant?
  • (6) On Saturday, vigils organise by the veteran civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton will be held across the US to protest against the acquittal of Zimmerman, who shot 17-year-old Martin as he returned home armed with nothing more than a bag of Skittles and a drink from a convenience store.
  • (7) She described identifying and photographing items near the body, including a bullet casing, Martin's keys, cellphone, headphones and a bag of Skittles he had just bought at a 7-Eleven convenience store less than a mile away.
  • (8) September 20, 2016 One Twitter user has suggested how Wrigley, the company that owns Skittles, could respond.
  • (9) Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) I think we should stop eating any #Skittles .
  • (10) Trayvon Martin was going to the store for Skittles.
  • (11) In 1987, he stood for parliament in the Greenwich byelection, as a candidate for the Rainbow Alliance Beer, Fags and Skittles party, polling 174 votes.
  • (12) Pete Haviland-Eduah (@TheNotoriousPHE) We can't swim, we can't buy skittles, we can't listen to loud music, we can't shop, we can't play, we can't breathe, we can't pray.
  • (13) September 20, 2016 Nicky Woolf (@NickyWoolf) TRUMP CAMPAIGN: what if we told you three skittles in this bowl are- ME: *in front of empty bowl of skittles, through mouthful* mmf whhf?
  • (14) On 26 February 2012 Martin was on his way home, minding his own business armed only with a can of iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
  • (15) mainlee cos i luv skittles and i think ppl wud like to see me eat them.
  • (16) The following sports were examined: callisthenics, hiking, golf, skittles, bowling, curling, games, jogging, cycling, rowing, swimming, alpine skiing, long-distance skiing, dancing, and tennis.
  • (17) And how many of the fans eating it will get a little experimental and try putting the Skittles inside the burger (before realising what a terrible mistake that was)?
  • (18) While this celebration provides an important (not to mention fun) outlet for self-expression, we must not forget that life for GLBTIQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) people in contemporary Australia is not all beer and skittles.
  • (19) The song Hittin' Skittles was about someone I knew, but also about the Prince song The Ballad of Dorothy Parker .
  • (20) matt blaze (@mattblaze) If you told me that three @skittles in each bowl are poisonous, I'd look at the data and conclude that you're wrong about Skittle safety.

Spittle


Definition:

  • (n.) See Spital.
  • (v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.
  • (n.) A small sort of spade.
  • (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We wish to thank Consultants from the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, The Middlesex Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital, who allowed us access to their patients; Mr. D. Garfield Davies, Dr. M. F. Spittle, Mr. D. Winstock, Mr. H. P. Cook, Professor H. C. Killey and Mr. L. W. Kay.
  • (2) But he can further disprove Gilbert's four-year-old spittle.
  • (3) All this, flecked with varying amounts of spittle, is recounted as fact on the net and in US papers.
  • (4) For group B patients, detecting this marker positiveness of 71.5% patients in serum and none in spittle.
  • (5) The treatment needs of the subjects was monitored too and the amount of Streptococco mutans in 6 years old schoolchildren, using spittle drawning, was investigated.
  • (6) Seventeen patients separated in two groups were treated for same: A) (10) positiveness of reply marker in serum, and negative for spittle.
  • (7) You could almost see the spittle flying from his lips,” Ludlam said.
  • (8) Finally, 27.9% reported swallowing the substance or spittle, suggesting the need for further research on the potential health implications of this behavior.
  • (9) The next day I was hauled into the head’s office to be read a spittle-flecked diatribe about how a particular parent felt Thatcher “saved this country from the Argentinians”, and they did not send their child to my school to be “indoctrinated by trendy lefty teachers”.
  • (10) The analysis of the spittle samples drawned in 6 years old schoolchildren points out high levels of Streptococcus mutans as regard those collected in other similar studies achieved by our Department.
  • (11) "The only difference between now and then those lick-spittle Lib Dems have joined the Tories to privatise it.
  • (12) And this is the problem: the unrealistic optimism that is an essential part of human character drives us to believe in miracle cures, whether they be statins, the lottery, or the spittle of a supposed messiah.
  • (13) B) (7) positiveness of reply marker in serum and spittle.
  • (14) These 287 exams consist of 145 bronchic aspiration liquids and 142 spittles.
  • (15) Faced with the BNP , all three mainstream parties, in what had doubtless been the subject of some negotiation by the programme's producers, were seated squarely to the left of the long, curved desk, with David Dimbleby in the centre acting as a reassuring buffer against any anticipated xenophobic spittle.
  • (16) More generally, a chemico-induction produced by material buccal spittle, at the laying, on by excrements is at the origin of these mechanisms.
  • (17) Standing next to David Dimbleby, he maintained an upbeat and optimistic tone, a more effective salesman than the traditional Brexiteer – a bar-room bore in a striped boating club blazer, giving a red-faced, spittle-flecked speech.
  • (18) However, the clinical symptomatology of this syndrome is peculiar, with little muscular mass, a long face with an open mouth from which the spittle runs easily, muscular hypotony, myotatic areflexia of hyporeflexia, normal serum enzymes and E.M.G.
  • (19) Above said was determined throughout DNA molecular hybrid of VHB in serum and spittle.
  • (20) It argued last week that Britain's austerity is "mendacious" spin, and a "con" and, in case you hadn't got the message and been bathed in sufficient spittle, "bare-faced deception".