Etymology
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spit + hole
spithole (plural spitholes)
- Euphemistic form of shithole.
1999 November 15, Tracey Levin, “HEB / False advertsing”, in houston.general[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:HEB is a spithole and I wouldn't go in there if they were giving everything away.
2000 March 6, Joseph Oberlander, “Is doing evil towards a good end still evil?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:Unfortunately, it is true in this Godless spit-hole that we have created. Money. Greed. Total lack of firm and hard rules.
2002 August 12, AAS, “Q update, part deux”, in rec.pets.cats.community[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:YES!!! Supposedly yet another ailment contracted in that spithole. Q was only there a week, think of how sickly the other animals that they adopt are there! The poor things. They kept telling me that its sleepy stuff in his eye. Sleepy stuff my a$$.
2006 October 30, Savers by Ceg, “how to obtain GPS coordinates?”, in alt.satellite.gps.magellan[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:The property is in a small area called Buzzard Gap...about 5 miles out of Wilburton, OK. It's a little spithole in the middle of nowhere. If you're familiar with Robber's Cave Park, the property is about 10 miles south of there.
- (slang) One's mouth.
1999 March 6, damian, “I'm new here, but not Green!”, in alt.recovery.na[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:Plug up yer spithole. Yer nothin but a pile of shitty peacock feathers. Sew up the hole in yer tights and get outta here. Go over to araa where someone will listen to ya.
2007 July 17, Electrician, “Vick The Dick II”, in alt.sports.football.pro.atl-falcons[6] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:You can look at Vick and just know he doesn't an IQ much above the low dual digits. And once he opens that ignorant spithole of his - well all doubt is removed.
2013, Tim Seeley, Hack/Slash, issue 24:Unh. Shit. Drank too much fizz, bro. Think I'm gonna blow from my spithole and my fartbox.