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spiter

spiter noun: one who spites (someone).

Noun

spiter (plural spiters)

  1. One who spites (someone).
    • “[…] Old Mordred and Ursil hate me, and I hate them; they spite me now, and when I can, I shall spite them.” / “Ah!” said Morgan, remembering his own expressions the evening before, when overheard by Father Aidan, “so I suppose we all are by nature.” / “All are what?” asked his companion. / “All...1841, [Anna Austen Lefroy], “The Captive”, in The Winter’s Tale: To Which Is Added Little Bertram’s Dream, London: James Burns, […], pages 60–61
    • They considered that the sanctity of the mount had been ‹ brutally trampled on by the spiters of the Lord › when ‹ Ammonites, Moabites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, and Hagarites came bringing coffins and all kinds of unclean things to it. ›1966, Mordechai Nurock, Misha Louvish, transl., edited by David Ben-Gurion, The Jews in their Land, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 205

Forms of spiter

pluralspiters

Origin of spiter

From spite + -er.

Questions about spiter

What does spiter mean?
Spiter means one who spites (someone).
What part of speech is spiter?
Spiter is a noun.
What is the plural of spiter?
The plural of spiter is spiters.

Words near spiter in the dictionary

  1. spitefulness
  2. spitefulnesses
  3. spiteless
  4. spitelessly
  5. spitelessness
  6. spiter
  7. Spiteri
  8. Spiteris
  9. spiters
  10. spites
  11. spitesome

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