A person of hot temper and small stature (Bnff. c.1930: My auntie's coming tonight, but it's so long since I saw her that I can't mind the spit of her face.Ģ. (11 Feb.): A “nyatterie nyarbit spittin.” 14: Jeannie wis a spittin' o' a cratur, an widna gi'e in. (2) a small hot-tempered person or animal, a puny mischievous creature (Abd. Smith Braid Haaick 10: Ei's eis faither's sputten eemeedge.ģ. Ye're the spittin image o' some yin noo: whaar hev I seen yer ogly face? Rxb. Hypernyms ('spit' is a kind of.): ejection expulsion forcing out projection (the act of expelling or projecting or. Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions. Meaning: The act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) Synonyms: expectoration spit spitting.
Blue Quay Head Tryst 70, 126: He's the spittin image o' a thrawn fechter. Irregular inflected forms: spat, spitted, spitting I. 190: The Kirkpatricks were belted knights of Closeburn when we were but spittent Lairds of Drumlanrig. to be the spitten image of, to be the exact likeness of, to be very similar to. Ok To thrust a spit through sb/sth We cannot spit in the eye of society. spitten, ¶(1) mean, lowly, of no consequence (2) in phr. Your naked infants spitted upon pikes.'' -Shak. 1899 Shetland News (22 July): Irna da cürers takkin' a hire o' sax pound frae da men? Da hire could niver spit apo' da ootlay wi' da saxerns.Ģ. Milne Eppie Elrick xxii.: Eence ur tweize fin A tummlt doon A near spat o' ma liv an' gidd up. Hamilton Outlaws xix.: Ye may just spit and gie ower, for my lord winna see you. Therefore, spit is the current action of emitting saliva. However, it can also refer to a very light rain. This refers to the act of ejecting fluids from the mouth with saliva. Both are variations of the infinitive, to spit.
Inwick 170: We'll juist hae to spit an' gie ower. intransitive verbintransitive verb spits, intransitive verb spitting, spat/spat/, spit 1Eject saliva forcibly from ones mouth, sometimes as a gesture of. The difference between spit and spat is the verb tense. Please note that these considerations do not apply to the verb spit as in 'spit-roast.' Its principle parts are spit, spitted, spitted. Napier Folk-Lore 101: The usual method of acknowledging that they were outwitted was by spitting on the ground in the language of the day, they would be requested to “spit and gie't o'er,” that is, own that they were beaten. Babies with Anglophone parents, however, have a strong preference for past tense spit: according to a Google NGram, no infant has ever spat up in English, at least not in print. (Aug.) 35: He has nothing to do but shut the book and (to use a very expressive juvenile term,) spit and gie owre. 1928) (4) to spit upon, to make the least impression on, to make the slightest difference to (Sh. 1971) (3) to spit in the wisp, to miss a round of drinking (Mry. 1971) (2) to spit and gie ( it) ower or up, to give in, admit defeat (Abd., Kcd., Ags. and deriv.: (1) spitty, a nickname applied to one who spits frequently (Sh., Ork., Abd., Fif. Levack Lossiemouth 31), sputten weak spitted (m.Lth. Show Show Browse Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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