spitter
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
spitter (plural spitters)
- One who puts meat on a spit.
- A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
Translations edit
young deer
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
spitter (plural spitters)
- One who spits.
- 2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107:
- After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.
- (baseball) A spitball.
- (herpetology, slang) A spitting cobra.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
one that spits
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baseball sense — see spitball