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cuspidor
[ kuhs-pi-dawr ]
noun
- a large bowl, often of metal, serving as a receptacle for spit, especially from chewing tobacco: in wide use during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
cuspidor
/ ˈkʌspɪˌdɔː /
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cuspidor1
C18: from Portuguese, from cuspir to spit, from Latin conspuere, from spuere to spit
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Example Sentences
Jack Bowden rose, spit carefully into the shiny brass cuspidor, placed there to preserve the long-haired red carpet, and began.
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His clothes were seedy, and his remarks punctuated by amber-colored shots at the cuspidor.
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"Dutch" scratched his head, and, to better conceal his emotion, let go another flyer of saliva at the cuspidor.
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Twice after he took his seat at the bade end of the double line he tried for a wooden cuspidor ten feet away.
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Roaring Rory spat a huge cud of tobacco into a cuspidor six feet away, the better to express his astonishment.
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