spitting
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
spitting
- present participle and gerund of spit
Noun[edit]
spitting (plural spittings)
- (chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
- 1837, James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31, page 44:
- Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers.
- (uncountable) An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.
- Synonym: sprouting