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US
/ˈspɪtəɫ/
]
[ UK /spˈɪtəl/ ]
[ UK /spˈɪtəl/ ]
NOUN
- a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
How To Use spittle In A Sentence
- Spittle and blood spattered his lips, dripping in my mouth. Brush of Darkness
- Gobs of spittle ran down his chin.
- The names Temple and Templeman were acquired from residence near one of the preceptories of the Knights Templars, and Spittlehouse (Chapter The Romance of Names
- In his piece about Awana, he writes amusingly about taking a pee and I couldn't help but recall the moment when the great man, he of pulchritudinous prose, goitred with soliped leitmotifs, crenellation and spittle, took one next to mee. AA . . . On The Piss
- A government that began with a Commons majority of 179 behaved in a lickspittle fashion towards its natural enemies.
- Lickspittle or someone capable of independent thought. Times, Sunday Times
- Now he is largely viewed as a hawk and lickspittle himself. Times, Sunday Times
- Baxorth lowered his eyebrows, wiped spittle from his mouth, and walked over to where Kelch was pinned against the building.
- His face was redder than the tomatoes he was squashing under foot and spittle flew from his mouth as he lumbered toward his wife.
- Rae felt a light spray of spittle from Yana's mouth hit her on the cheek. REVELATIONS
