spet
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
spet (uncountable)
- (obsolete) spittle
- 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:
- Well, when I found 'twas Sir Blount my spet dried up within me.
Verb[edit]
spet (third-person singular simple present spets, present participle spetting, simple past and past participle spetted)
- To spit; to throw out.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
- the dragon […] spets her thickest gloom
- 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- A thirsty Train That […] spet from their dry Chaps the gather'd dust again.
References[edit]
- “spet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Indonesian[edit]
Noun[edit]
spet (first-person possessive spetku, second-person possessive spetmu, third-person possessive spetnya)
- alternative spelling of sepuit (“syringe”).
Slovene[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
spẹ̑t
Further reading[edit]
- “spet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Tok Pisin[edit]
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spet
Torres Strait Creole[edit]
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Noun[edit]
spet
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
spet (nominative plural spets)
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