spittle
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1470–80; blend of Middle English spit (noun) (see spit1) and spetil, Old English spǣtl, variant of spātl saliva
1470–80; blend of Middle English spit (noun) (see spit1) and spetil, Old English spǣtl, variant of spātl saliva
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| —n | |
| 1. | the fluid secreted in the mouth; saliva or spit |
| 2. | cuckoo spit, Also called: frog spit the frothy substance secreted on plants by the larvae of certain froghoppers |
| [Old English spǣtl saliva; see | |
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Spittle
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
spittle
1481, "saliva, spit," probably an alteration (by influence of spit (v.)) of O.E. spætl, spatl, from P.Gmc. *spætlan, related to O.E. spætan "to spit."
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Medical Dictionary
spittle spit·tle (spĭt'l)
n.
Spit; saliva.
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Example sentences
Where the straits are perilous, more hungry spittle.
Also a mud of spittle and dust was used on occasions of this sort.
Back that ill-informed truck up and let me kick this post into high spittle.
For those of us not within immediate range of the flying spittle, umpire-baiting can be as mesmerizing as it is repugnant.
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