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spitter

spitter noun: one who puts meat on a spit.

Noun (1)

spitter (plural spitters)

  1. One who puts meat on a spit.
  2. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp.
    • Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, pricket

Noun (2)

spitter (plural spitters)

  1. Someone who spits.
    • Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.
    • After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107
    1. (vulgar) Someone who spits out semen during oral sex.
  2. (slang) Rapper, emcee.
    • On the stage with the RZA to the Gravediggaz
      GZA used to say I was his favorite spitter2010, Killah Priest, “Priest History”, in The 3 Day Theory
    • What you tryna be Vito? Well there's rules to this shit
      Don't get clapped, y'all ain't real spitters, y'all lips chapped2012, Joey Badass featuring Capital Steez, “Killuminati”, in 1999
  3. (slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.
    Synonyms:
    spitting cobra
  4. A small shower (of rain), a spatter.
    • A zigzag of lightning fretted the eastern horizon in a brilliant greenish flash, sharply outlining the sea-line; and, as a solemn, hollow, distant peal reverberated, a spitter of rain fell. There was not a breath of wind, and the whack-whacking and spits of flame from the warships came threatening...1916, The Wireless Age, page 19
    • [A] spitter of rain hit the leaves, increasing to a drenching rush.2025 March 25, Jade Linwood, Beast, Rebellion Publishing Ltd, →ISBN
  5. Synonym of spitball.
    • Coach says no throwing any spitters.
    Synonyms:
    spitball
  6. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.
    • with a spitter in the console of his Camaro

spitter meaning in Tamil

spitter in Tamil

துப்புவோன்

Synonyms of spitter

All synonyms of spitter

Forms of spitter

pluralspitters
alternative formspittard

Origin of spitter

From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.

From spit (verb) + -er.

Words formed from spitter

Questions about spitter

What does spitter mean?
Spitter means one who puts meat on a spit.
What is spitter in Tamil?
Spitter in Tamil is துப்புவோன். See Spitter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spitter?
Spitter is a noun.
What is the plural of spitter?
The plural of spitter is spitters.

Words near spitter in the dictionary

  1. Spittal an der Drau
  2. Spittal of Glenshee
  3. spittals
  4. spitted
  5. spitten
  6. spitter
  7. spitters
  8. spitters are quitters
  9. spittest
  10. spitteth
  11. spittin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spitter (page history and authors); spitter (Tamil 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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