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Definition of spittle in English: spittlenoun ˈspɪt(ə)lˈspɪdl mass nounSaliva, especially as ejected from the mouth. （尤指从口中吐出的）唾液，口水 Example sentencesExamples - Mandibles clashed, clacking together like snapping tree trunks, and spittle drooled from its fangs.
- Sweat and spittle flew as the Serpent-Men cried out in bloodlust, every individual more than ready to do battle.
- See the little bits of spittle coming out of his mouth?
- Diane was yelling again, spittle flying from her mouth as she cursed him to endure the most painful death imaginable.
- My mouth was thick with spittle, unable to contain it so that it speckled upon the wood floor.
- Alan could see the flecks of spittle flinging from her mouth as she ranted.
- He spat the words out with spittle from his dirty mouth.
- Baxorth lowered his eyebrows, wiped spittle from his mouth, and walked over to where Kelch was pinned against the building.
- During the subsequent backlash, he lost his rag and threw a total hissy fit, complete with flecks of spittle flying from his mouth.
- His face was redder than the tomatoes he was squashing under foot and spittle flew from his mouth as he lumbered toward his wife.
- As spittle from her mouth hit his face, his reflexes made him blink at the sudden feelings of the droplets falling onto his skin.
- There's another warping convulsion, and spittle sails from his mouth.
- One was tied with a used bed-sheet to an armchair, his head hanging down and spittle dribbling from the corner of his mouth.
- When he wrote: ‘The more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it’, it was from first-hand knowledge.
- Some of them sit with their heads between their legs slowly expectorating a long dribble of spit until there is a pool of spittle on the ground.
- Maureen sits there staring vacantly across the table, a stray bit of spittle drooling out of the side of her mouth…
- Queen Illariana spat directly in his face, and Revern wiped off her spittle, twisting his mouth in disgust.
- Shase shouted in Hunter's face, spittle flying from his mouth onto Hunter's.
- He coughed out once, almost like a yelp of pain and sadness, long draws of spittle forming in his mouth and running out his haggard jaw.
- Watching him perform, spittle flying from his mouth, veins bulging and neck tendons taut as wires, I hope that performance is catharsis for him.
Synonyms saliva, sputum, slaver, slobber, dribble, drool
Derivativesadjective When told they need to prove their need for emergency service, the elderly man explodes in spittly geriatric fury. Example sentencesExamples - She called his name but he didn't answer, emitting instead a strained, spittly whistle.
- In the old people's home I was consigned for what seemed like an eternity to the day room - to a view of tatty armchairs, leering smiles, clawing fingers, and spittly remarks I could not understand.
- Energy is what I'm missing, that raw, spittly, unsocialized fizz that only an overexcited nerd can produce.
- But generally, it's as if watching a certain amount of television lowers your expectations and you fail to notice that you are being offered ideas so overchewed that you have been left with a sort of spittly cud.
OriginLate 15th century: alteration of dialect spattle, by association with spit1. Rhymesacquittal, belittle, brittle, committal, embrittle, it'll, kittle, little, remittal, skittle, tittle, victual, whittle Definition of spittle in US English: spittlenounˈspidlˈspɪdl Saliva, especially as ejected from the mouth. （尤指从口中吐出的）唾液，口水 Example sentencesExamples - There's another warping convulsion, and spittle sails from his mouth.
- Mandibles clashed, clacking together like snapping tree trunks, and spittle drooled from its fangs.
- Sweat and spittle flew as the Serpent-Men cried out in bloodlust, every individual more than ready to do battle.
- Watching him perform, spittle flying from his mouth, veins bulging and neck tendons taut as wires, I hope that performance is catharsis for him.
- Baxorth lowered his eyebrows, wiped spittle from his mouth, and walked over to where Kelch was pinned against the building.
- Alan could see the flecks of spittle flinging from her mouth as she ranted.
- Diane was yelling again, spittle flying from her mouth as she cursed him to endure the most painful death imaginable.
- Maureen sits there staring vacantly across the table, a stray bit of spittle drooling out of the side of her mouth…
- He coughed out once, almost like a yelp of pain and sadness, long draws of spittle forming in his mouth and running out his haggard jaw.
- Queen Illariana spat directly in his face, and Revern wiped off her spittle, twisting his mouth in disgust.
- Some of them sit with their heads between their legs slowly expectorating a long dribble of spit until there is a pool of spittle on the ground.
- As spittle from her mouth hit his face, his reflexes made him blink at the sudden feelings of the droplets falling onto his skin.
- Shase shouted in Hunter's face, spittle flying from his mouth onto Hunter's.
- During the subsequent backlash, he lost his rag and threw a total hissy fit, complete with flecks of spittle flying from his mouth.
- He spat the words out with spittle from his dirty mouth.
- My mouth was thick with spittle, unable to contain it so that it speckled upon the wood floor.
- When he wrote: ‘The more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it’, it was from first-hand knowledge.
- One was tied with a used bed-sheet to an armchair, his head hanging down and spittle dribbling from the corner of his mouth.
- See the little bits of spittle coming out of his mouth?
- His face was redder than the tomatoes he was squashing under foot and spittle flew from his mouth as he lumbered toward his wife.
Synonyms saliva, sputum, slaver, slobber, dribble, drool
OriginLate 15th century: alteration of dialect spattle, by association with spit. |