单词 | spat-out |
释义 | > as lemmasspat-out With prepositions and adverbs, as spat-on, spat-out. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 161 His gorge rose. Spaton sawdust, warmish cigarette smoke..the stale of ferment. 1948 T. A. M. Nash Anchau Rural Devel. & Settlement Scheme 6 Ankle deep in spat-out sugarcane fibre. 1968 Listener 11 July 40/1 It was generally conceived in the Labour movement that that old-fashioned and now spat-out word, ‘comradeship’, mattered an awful lot. 1978 A. J. Huxley Illustr. Hist. Gardening i. 10 Presumably growing from spat-out seeds, they [sc. wild fruits] were nearly always found close to the dwellings. < as lemmas |
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