verb
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To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
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to spit a loin of veal
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To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
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She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.
verb
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To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
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To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly.
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a hot pan spitting droplets of fat
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To utter (something) violently.
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(hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
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To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
verb
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To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
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To plant (something) using a spade.
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To dig, to spade.
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noun
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Expectoration
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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.
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Examples of spitting in a Sentence
You're spitting up blood.
She was okay, if she was spitting fire at him.
The diseases for which it was chiefly taken were malarial fever, dysentery, diarrhoea, spitting of blood, rheumatism and elephantiasis.
Events include watermelon seed spitting contest and the crowning of a Thump Queen, sounds attractive huh?
This he kept spitting out, and so formed an island, which developed into the world.
He also has dim recollections of his encounter with Ofelia, the spitting image of the woman in the portrait in the sitting room.
Will he have the families spitting lyrical venom or are hip-hop reinforcements required?
Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me.
In stature the alpaca (Lama huanacos pacos) is considerably inferior to the llama, but has the same unpleasant habit of spitting.
It rang loudly in the hall, a rap song spitting F-bombs that made her eyebrows rise.
Chelsea should also be praised for wrestling a spitting cobra that attacked her and left her with a scar for life.
Bert Fry has already been on the phone ' spitting feathers ' .
Live, Scully entertain as much as they captivate, with their cocksure swagger, spitting out clever acurate lyrics that make you think.
Yet I think of Lester Bangs, spitting vitriol toward MOR safety in his " James Taylor Marked for Death " piece.
By Appointment which includes one sketch involving Louise Gold very much in her Spitting Image puppeteer 's guise.
The quiet couples slurping noodles after dark on verandas will become rioting, spitting, drug- taking delinquents.
A decent enough pub, despite its spitting distance from Covent Garden location.
He will be spitting blood now he 's in US custody.
I 'm sure she is the spitting image of my ' Banjo '.
Most of the time, this spitting up or reflux disappears on its own by the time a child reaches 18 months old.
Ruthie tells me Chesapeake is the spitting image of the famous "Chesapeake" mascot of railroad fame.
Spitting. Most users spit out the tobacco juices and tobacco-loaded saliva.
That means having a cup handy at all times, or spitting on the ground.
Spitting hockers ranging from off-white to yellow, to tawny, to brown and green, orange and red and the occasional black hocker.
They think that the dampness caused by babies sweating, spitting up, and wet diapers soaks into the mattress and creates a fungus called Scopulariopsis brevicaulis.
Finally, for the truly adventurous, Cascade has a three-story tube slide, which also travels outside the building before spitting riders out in the indoor pool.
Graffiti has been painted all over the tropical island and a strange metallic goo is spitting out enemies that plague the land.
Formal implies a more serious tone with higher wine expectations, a significant amount of spitting, and generally these tastings are best presented by a wine producer or a wine club.
Frequent vomiting or spitting up is the usual indicator for GERD in children.
Feeding a baby on formula smaller portions more frequently can also help manage spitting up.
These items always cause symptoms (difficulty swallowing and spitting up saliva, for instance) and may elude detection for some time while the child is being treated for asthma or recurring pneumonia.
They eliminated her as soon as they learned of the spitting incident.
The series follows Simmons -- the legendary, face-painted, blood spitting, tongue wagging hellion of the rock band KISS -- and his family, including his life partner, actress/model Shannon Tweed, and their kids, Nick and Sophie.
In 2006, Owens was fined by the NFL for spitting in the face of an Atlanta Falcons player during a game.
During such periods of excitement it is even able, by the pressure of the muscles on the poison-duct, to eject the fluid to some distance; hence it shares with the cobra a third Dutch name, that of "spuw slang" (spitting snake).
When molten, silver occludes the oxygen of the atmosphere, absorbing 20 times its own volume of the gas; the oxygen, however, is not permanently retained, for on cooling it is expelled with great violence; this phenomenon is known as the "spitting" of silver.
The disagreeable habit of spitting is common to all the group. In a wide sense the term "llama" is used to designate all the South American Camelidae.
So's spitting on the sidewalk.
The snake, however, to which the word "asp" has been most commonly applied is undoubtedly the haje of Egypt, the spy-slange or spitting snake of the Boers (Naja haje), one of the very poisonous Elarinae, from 3 to 4 ft.