spet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɛt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
spet (uncountable)
- (obsolete) spittle
- 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:
- Well, when I found 'twas Sir Blount my spet dried up within me.
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], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; 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:
- the dragon […] spets her thickest gloom
- 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- A thirsty Train That […] spet from their dry Chaps the gather'd dust again.
References
- “spet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Indonesian
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spéːt/
Further reading
- “spet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Volapük
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
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