Meaning

9 senses
  1. One who puts meat on a spit.

  2. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp.

    Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, pricket

  3. Someone who spits.

    Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.

    плева́льщикpleválʹščik, плева́льщицаpleválʹščica

    a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)

  4. Someone who spits.

    (vulgar)Someone who spits out semen during oral sex.

  5. (slang)Rapper, emcee.

  6. (slang)Synonym of spitting cobra.

  7. A small shower (of rain), a spatter.

  8. Synonym of spitball.

    Coach says no throwing any spitters.

  9. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.

    with a spitter in the console of his Camaro

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one that spits:

Origin

From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.

From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.

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Forms

plural: spitters

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth):expectorator
  • an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before they throw it:spitball

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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