spet

See also: spēt

English

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.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, sept, sept-, step, step-

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈspéːt/
Tonal orthography: spẹ̑t

Adverb

spét

again, once more

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English spit.

Noun

spet

saliva

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English spit.

Noun

spet

saliva

Volapük

Noun

spet (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 some later, non-classical Volapük only

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