Word.ws English Dictionary

spitting tacks

spitting tacks is the present participle and gerund of spit tacks.

Meaning of spit tacks

Verb

spit tacks (third-person singular simple present spits tacks, present participle spitting tacks, simple past and past participle spat tacks or spit tacks)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, slang) To be extremely angry.

Questions about spitting tacks

What is spitting tacks the present participle and gerund of?
Spitting tacks is the present participle and gerund of spit tacks.

Words near spitting tacks in the dictionary

  1. spitting on
  2. spitting out
  3. spitting spider
  4. spitting spiders
  5. spitting straight facts
  6. spitting tacks
  7. spitting the dummy
  8. spitting up
  9. spittingly
  10. spittings
  11. spittle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spitting tacks (page history and authors); spit tacks (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spitting tacks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spitting_tacks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.