Spittle

Word SPITTLE
Character 7
Hyphenation spit tle
Pronunciations /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/

Definitions and meanings of "Spittle"

What do we mean by spittle?

Spit; saliva. noun

The frothy liquid secreted by the nymphs of froghoppers. noun

See spital. noun

The mucous substance secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; saliva ejected from the mouth. noun

To dig or stir with a small spade.

A kind of small spade. noun

A spadelike implement with a short handle, used in putting cakes into an oven. noun

The secretion surrounding the larva of a spittle-insect. noun

A small sort of spade. noun

See spital. noun

The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit. noun

See Cuckoo spit (b), under Cuckoo. noun

To dig or stir with a small spade. transitive verb

Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration. noun

Something frothy and white that resembles spit. noun

Spit-up or drool of an infant. noun

A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches noun

Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.

Something frothy and white that resembles spit.

Spit-up or drool of an infant.

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The word "spittle" in example sentences

He bent over, wiping up some of the still wet spittle from the toe of his boot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Complete with dilating eye and the spittle from the nostrils this was the moment in film history when anything a filmmaker could dream up was officially a possibility. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We are given Gold ones as really really IP's which means we'll be within spittle distance from the speakers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Never would I have thought that you would see rank and file middle/upper middle class people praising and cheering the use of torture and celebrating bush’s ignorant incompetence, but all you had to do was offer them tax cuts, abd they obediently got into line cheering on or turning a blind eye to any number of evils and engaging in spittle flecked rages against Gore and Kerry in their zeal to serve the party. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For none shall own me but he, because his cheek is smooth and the water of his mouth sweet as Salsabil; 273 his spittle is a cure for the sick and his charms daze and dazzle poet and proser, even as saith one of him, ❋ Unknown (2006)

For none shall own me but he, because his cheek is smooth and the water of his mouth sweet as Salsabil; [FN#273] his spittle is a cure for the sick and his charms daze and dazzle poet and proser, even as saith one of him, ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The salival glands are situated about the root of the tongue and angle of the jaw: they secrete the substance called saliva or spittle, which is discharged into the mouth. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

Get out your masks and TamiFlu everyone, cause he sprays a lot of spittle which is an excellent way of spreading contagion! ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

But I found myself asking, as I often do when my opinions garner the kind of spittle-flecked crazy talk that my end-of-year 'Worst' list did, what is it specifically about the internet that makes people jerks? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable. the white -- literally, "spittle" (1Sa 21: 13), which the white of an egg resembles. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Next he takes some leaves of the tree or a piece of its bark, chews it into a mash, and then goes and breathes on the patient, his breath being moistened with spittle which is charged with particles of the leaves or the bark. [ ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

Tuberculosis spreads through coughs, sneezes or the spittle in speech by the infected. ❋ M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein (2011)

But we have a bulldog, right-wing press and a hefty Christian lobby routinely spraying Britons with anti-gay spittle. ❋ Patrick Strudwick (2011)

But this was just the spittle from chewing the nut. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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