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spitting

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈspɪtɪŋ//

An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.

noun

  1. 1

    archaicexpectoration

    Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers.

  2. 2

    An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of spitpresent participle and gerund of spit

Forms

plural
spittings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).