单词 | spettle |
释义 | † spettlen. Obsolete. Spittle, spit. (Frequently c1575–1650.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] > spittle spattlec897 spoldOE spattlingc1000 speche?c1225 spita1300 spittinga1300 spotec1350 spittle1481 spettlea1500 salivation1601 spawlings1614 spawl1647 expectoration1650 snivel1698 slabber1718 outspitting1870 a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 240 Sutil and thyn spetil that descendyth or comyth doune fro the Palete of the mouth. c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. John ix. 6 He spittit into the erd, and made clay of the spettil [1535 Coverd. spetle]. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft ii. vi. 28 She will put spettle priuilie vpon hir cheeks, and seeme to weepe. 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 130 Hee spets at Heav'n, And his owne spettle in his face is driven. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis sig. A2v Thy Cheeks on each side bored through appear; Thorough whose holes (the slavering Spetles vent) The Teeth [etc.]. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. 13 No Blood, from bitten Nails, those Poems drew: But churn'd, like Spettle, from the Lips they flew. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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