spet
See also: spēt and spět
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɛt/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
spet (uncountable)
- (obsolete) spittle
Verb
spet (third-person singular simple present spets, present participle spetting, simple past and past participle spetted)
- To spit; to throw out.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
- the dragon […] spets her thickest gloom
-
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- EPTs, ESTP, PETs, Pest, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, sept, sept-, step, step-
Indonesian
Noun
spet (first-person possessive spetku, second-person possessive spetmu, third-person possessive spetnya)
- alternative spelling of sepuit (“syringe”).
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spéːt/
Adverb
spẹ̑t
- again, once more
Further reading
- “spet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English spit.
Noun
spet
- saliva
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English spit.
Noun
spet
- saliva
Volapük
Noun
spet (nominative plural spets)
- hope
Declension
declension of spet
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spet | spets |
| genitive | speta | spetas |
| dative | spete | spetes |
| accusative | speti | spetis |
| vocative 1 | o spet! | o spets! |
| predicative 2 | spetu | spetus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only