cuspidor
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Etymology edit
From Portuguese cuspidor (“spitter”).
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Noun edit
cuspidor (plural cuspidors)
- (chiefly US) A spittoon.
- 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 5, in Arrowsmith, page 40:
- Clif Clawson and he lived in a large room with flowered wall-paper, piles of filthy clothes, iron beds, and cuspidors.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 528:
- Despite the dirty ceiling and the cigarette butts swelling in the cuspidor, they're civilised.
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spittoon — see spittoon
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cuspidor
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Noun edit
cuspidor m (plural cuspidores, feminine cuspidora, feminine plural cuspidoras)
- spitter (someone who spits)
- spittoon (receptacle for spit)
- Synonyms: cuspideira, escarradeira