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cuspidor

cuspidor noun: a spittoon.

Noun

cuspidor (plural cuspidors)

  1. (US) A spittoon.
    • Clif Clawson and he lived in a large room with flowered wall-paper, piles of filthy clothes, iron beds, and cuspidors.1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 5, in Arrowsmith, page 40
    • Despite the dirty ceiling and the cigarette butts swelling in the cuspidor, they're civilised.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 528

cuspidor meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

cuspidor in Tamil

துப்பான், துப்பும் கலயம்

cuspidor in Urdu

تھوک دان

cuspidor in Kannada

ಕಾಳಂಚಿ

Forms of cuspidor

pluralcuspidors

Origin of cuspidor

Borrowed from Portuguese cuspidor (“spitter”).

Words formed from cuspidor

Questions about cuspidor

What does cuspidor mean?
Cuspidor means a spittoon.
What is cuspidor in Tamil?
Cuspidor in Tamil is துப்பான், துப்பும் கலயம். See Cuspidor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cuspidor?
Cuspidor is a noun.
What is the plural of cuspidor?
The plural of cuspidor is cuspidors.

Words near cuspidor in the dictionary

  1. cuspidation
  2. cuspidations
  3. cuspides
  4. cuspidine
  5. cuspidines
  6. cuspidor
  7. cuspidore
  8. cuspidores
  9. cuspidors
  10. cuspidoside
  11. cuspids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuspidor (page history and authors); cuspidor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cuspidor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cuspidor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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