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misspit

misspit verb: to spit badly, such as missing the location where one is aiming.

Verb

misspit (third-person singular simple present misspits, present participle misspitting, simple past and past participle misspat or misspit)

  1. To spit badly, such as missing the location where one is aiming.
    • Richer than all the Orient In gold and glory, in want and woe, In self-denial and days misspent, In truth and treason in good and guilt, In ivied ruins and altars low, In battered walls and blood misspit— Glorious, gory Mexico.1895, Jeannette Leonard Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilder, The Critic - Volume 27, page 452
    • That my living room would no longer be littered with misspit watermelon seeds.1975, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, page 60

Forms of misspit

third-person singular presentmisspits
present participlemisspitting
past participlemisspat
pastmisspat
past participlemisspit
pastmisspit

Origin of misspit

From mis- + spit.

Questions about misspit

What does misspit mean?
Misspit means to spit badly, such as missing the location where one is aiming.
What part of speech is misspit?
Misspit is a verb.
What is the past tense of misspit?
The past tense of misspit is misspat.

Words near misspit in the dictionary

  1. misspense
  2. misspent
  3. misspin
  4. misspinning
  5. misspins
  6. misspit
  7. missplice
  8. misspliced
  9. missplices
  10. missplicing
  11. missplit

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