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English
Etymology
From Middle English spet.
Pronunciation
Noun
spet (uncountable)
- (obsolete) spittle
1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (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
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”).
Middle English
Etymology
From speten.
Pronunciation
Noun
spet (plural spets)
- (Late Middle English, hapax) spittle
Descendants
References
Polabian
Etymology
Borrowed from Low German Spêt.
Noun
spet m ?
- spear
References
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Polański, Kazimierz (1993) “spet”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 5 (sahi – ťüzǝc), Warszawa: Energeia, page 746
- Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “spet”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 136
- Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Spêt”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1047
Slovene
Pronunciation
Adverb
spẹ̑t
- again, once more
Further reading
- “spet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “spet”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
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
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only