(n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
(n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
(n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
(n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
(n.) To spade; to dig.
(v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spit
(n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
(n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
(n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
(v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
(v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(3) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
(4) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
(5) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(6) Raised in Manchester, Coogan began his comedy career in Ipswich in the 1980s, supplementing stand-up with voiceover work and impressions for Spitting Image, before moving to Radio 4 to work with Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci on On the Hour.
(7) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
(8) She might as well spit "Don't tell me I can't let my personal life affect my professional judgment" through a mouthful of Jaffa Cakes.
(9) In addition, SPIT does not require sophisticated equipment or expensive reagents.
(10) For starters, any Swiss finishing school would definitely have an issue with the volume and velocity of spit that gets produced on the pitch.
(11) Both aneurysm were successfully clipped but Mark remained hemiplegic with severe physical and behavioural problems, including incontinence, sexual disinhibition, aggression and uninhibited spitting.
(12) Trying to outspit a spitting cobra This was another mad challenge for my series Michaela's Wild Challenge!
(13) However, a considerable proportion of the respondents harbored incorrect beliefs regarding mosquito transmission and dangers to blood donors, and many showed uncertainty or incorrect knowledge regarding possible HIV transmission by biting, spitting, or use of public toilets.
(14) 2006 : Fifa vice-president Jack Warner welcomes questions from an investigative reporter asking about alleged corruption: "I would spit on you – but I will not dignify you with my spit ... go fuck yourself ... no foreigner, particularly a white foreigner, will come to my country and harass me."
(15) They would then spit on batons and rape us with them.
(16) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
(17) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
(18) There, with pleasing historical symmetry, it was placed within spitting distance of the statue of another famous French Jew, three times prime minister Leon Blum.
(19) The letter did not directly mention Muslims, and began instead by attacking people who drop litter or spit on buses.
(20) In June, the owner, Oliver Poiss, threw a huge summer solstice party with six wild boar roasting on spits and a $10,000 equipment giveaway.
Vindictive
Definition:
(a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
(a.) Punitive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(2) And that's the thing that has gripped Russia and caught the attention of the rest of the world, too: that the Russian government has gone and arrested an idea and is prosecuting through the courts with a vindictiveness the Russian people haven't before seen.
(3) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
(4) "It has become apparent that the company's continued refusal to reinstate staff travel concessions for striking members and its vindictive disciplinary measures against Unite members raises new items of dispute," said Woodley and Simpson.
(5) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(6) Her fictional abandonment of her father does not come from vindictiveness.
(7) "The legal system has lost all sense of mercy and justice and it has been replaced with punitiveness and vindictiveness," Stinebrickner-Kauffman told Mail Online .
(8) Dr Rosemary Gillespie was the object of a “nasty, vindictive and sustained campaign of bullying” from her second day in the job at the UK’s biggest HIV charity, the tribunal heard.
(9) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(10) Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.
(11) To express guarded optimism about the Greek deal is not to condone the provocative arrogance of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis or the pointless vindictiveness of the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble .
(12) Smoldering resentment, chronic anger, self-centeredness, vindictiveness, and a constant feeling of being abused ultimately produce a miserable human being who, as well as being alienated from self, alienates those in the interpersonal sphere.
(13) Bullying does happen, but often it's thoughtless rather than vindictive.
(14) It’s a form of, I think incredibly dangerous and vindictive industrial sabotage.
(15) Yet she hopes that the series will lift the lid on the complex and difficult jobs, help to convey the sheer scale of their work, and demonstrate that current attitudes are "vindictive and unfair".
(16) But here are our friends, shouting along with the soap script, playing their parts as the vindictive husband, the philandering wife.
(17) Fear hinders us from transforming into a more collaborative and innovative institution.” But, for the moment, some employees say they are still concerned: “Instead of taking opportunity to change course, [management] are being vindictive,” said one staffer.
(18) Another person went to the gym at lunch time and couldn’t get out ... One member doesn’t have the right to revoke the pass of another member’s staff.” Chris Bryant, the former shadow leader of the House of Commons, said it was a terrible way to treat staff members, branding it petty and “vindictive, gratuitous nastiness”.
(19) Pullman tweeted: "It's one of the most disgusting, mean, vindictive acts of a barbaric government."
(20) Kinnock, who supported Miliband in the 2010 leadership contest, rallied to his support on Sunday, telling the Observer : "A hostile press which thought he was a soft target have not forgiven him for proving them wrong – and the vindictiveness will continue."