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单词 spit-poison
释义

spit-poison

English

Etymology

spit + poison

Noun

spit-poison (plural spit-poisons)

  1. (obsolete, derogatory) A malicious person.
    • a. 1716, South, Robert, “Posthumous Sermon L”, in Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, volume 2, London: Reeves & Turner, published 1877, page 424:
      [] a vile person comes to be understood, and then to be abhorred, and to be pointed at as he passes by with such kind of elogies as these; "There goes a person for whom no one breathing was ever the better, but many ruined, blasted, and undone; the scourge of society, a spit-poison, a viper, and to be abandoned and shunned by all companies, like a mortal infection [] "
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