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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : spat |
| Phonetic Transcription : spæt |
Definition of spat
Origin :- "petty quarrel," 1804, American English, of unknown origin; perhaps somehow imitative (cf. spat "smack, slap," attested from 1823).
- noun dispute, quarrel
- Roland spat out a mouthful of dust and swore beneath his breath.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Do you think that if I spat upon him, I could degrade him to a lower level than his own?
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- At first I only felt bad between the shoulders and spat up some froth.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- "They cost seven and six," he muttered, regarding the one spat wistfully.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Her words evidently annoyed him and he frowned angrily and spat.
- Extract from : « Master and Man » by Leo Tolstoy
- He darted his head forward and spat in the heavy face so close to his own.
- Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
- It was she whom they had hissed like that; it was on herself that they had spat.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- He spat two or three times into the water, with an expression of contemptuous anger.
- Extract from : « The Flood » by Emile Zola
- Then deliberately and after the fashion of the Muslim he was become he spat upon it.
- Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
- Nor was it until somebody hawked and spat that the spell was broken.
- Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
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