† spittlen.¹

Forms: α. Middle English, 1500s spitel (Middle English spitele), Middle English–1500s spitell; Middle English spytel, Middle English spytelle, spytyl, Middle English–1500s spytylle; Middle English spetel, 1500s spetylle; Middle English–1500s spittell, 1500s spittel, Scottish spittaill, spyttell, spyttyll(e, spettell, spettylle. β. 1500s spyttle, 1500s–1600s spitle, 1500s–1800s spittle. γ. 1600s spitol, spitoll. See also spital n.

Etymology: Middle English spitel , spittel , etc., = Middle Low German spittel , spettel , Middle High German spittel , spittol (German spittel ), ultimately representing an aphetic form of hospital n., modified on the analogy of native words in -el. Forms with more original ending appear in Old High German spitâl (spitaul; German spital), Middle Low German spittâl, spettâl, Middle Dutch spit(t)-, spetael, Middle Danish spital, spedal, Middle Swedish spital(e, spetal(e, Icelandic spítal, -ali. The common source of these is apparently Italian or Levantine: compare Italian spedale, dialect spitale, modern Greek σπιτάλι; also medieval Latin spitalerius (1342 in Du Cange), medieval Greek σπιταλιώτης (c1350).

Obsolete.

a. A house or place for the reception of the indigent or diseased; a charitable foundation for this purpose, esp. one chiefly occupied by persons of a low class or afflicted with foul diseases; a lazar-house. (Now written spital n.)

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc.

bead-housec1160

spittle?c1225

spittle-housec1315

maison dieu1354

almshouse1395

hospital14..

God's house1425

hospitality1571

townhouse1597

guest house1600

gifts1651

college1694

asylum1776

hospice1818

group home1873

pogey1891

α. ?c1225 [see spittle-evil n. at Compounds 1]. c1315 [see spittle-house n. at Compounds 2a].

1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Kings ii. 34 (margin) Rabi Salomon seith, that he made in desert a spitele for pore men.

c1400 Rom. Rose 6505 Whanne I see beggers quakyng,..Lete bere hem to the spitel anoon.

c1425 St. Mary of Oignies ii. ii, in Anglia VIII. 152 Houses of mesels, þat are callid spitellis.

a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.iv^v At..saynt Mary Spyttell They set not by vs a whystell.

1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 43 At sent Mary spettell, the iij. dayes in Ester weke, preched the vicar of Stepney one Jerome.

β. 1571 [see sense 1b]. 1577 [see sense 1b]. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4^v May they lie and starue in some miserable spittle . 1606 [see sense 1b]. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 150 We descended from this..to the Spittle, where we found the Poor faring well from their Benefactors.1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. lxxvi She felt, or fancy'd..All the diseases which the spittles know.1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 129 Burton Lazars..being the chief of all the spittles and lazar houses in England.

b. Distinguished from hospital, as being of a lower class than this.

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1571 E. Grindal Articles B iv b Whether your Hospitals, Spittles, and almose houses be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and auncient ordinances of the same.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. v. sig. Kvj^v/1 There is mention made..of Hospitals for olde men, of spittles for beggars.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. B4 He..for widdowes buildes Almes-houses, Spittles, and large Hospitals.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. iii. 524 Put vp a supplication to him in the name of..an hospitall, a spittle, a prison.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 385 They were fitter, if any were alive, for some Spittle or Hospitall, then for any service that they were able to do for Herod.

1692 J. P. New Guide Constables 105 Whether their Almshouses, Hospital, School or Spittle, if they have any, be well and godly used.

c. transferred. (See quot. 1665.)

ΚΠ

1665 Voy. E. India 437 The Banians..have Spittles (as they say) on purpose to recover lame Birds and Beasts.

2. to rob the spittle, to make gain or profit in a particularly mean or dastardly manner.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer

to rob the spittle1632

to rob the spital1749

to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908

profiteer1917

1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies i. xciv Of all men, Vs'rers are not least accurst; They robb the Spittle; pinch th' Afflicted worst.

1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum i. ii. 85 To what end steal from the Reformed Churches? which had been meerely to rob the Spittle.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 207 Robbing the Spittle.

1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 79 I am not to..ruin a Family, or rob the Spittle, to redress his Grievances.

3. figurative. A foul receptacle or collection. Const. of.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun]

fenc888

longayne1340

sloven's inn?1518

slut's corner1570

sink1590

Augean stable1596

spittle1624

spital1771

expectoratory1836

mill-tail1854

stable1903

pisshole1928

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ix. 438 Making their corrupt bodies no better than sinkes of sinnes, and spittles of diseases.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xv. 192 Their souls have been the Chappells of sanctity, whose bodies have been the Spitolls of deformity.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila x. x. 180 Gluttons, who make themselves Spittles of each Disease.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

spittle-beggar n.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vn gueux de l'ostiere, a rogue, vagabond, or Spittle begger.

spittle-door n.

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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 20 The least Error, if grown sturdy and pressed, shall set open the Spittle-doore of all the squint-ey'd, wry-necked, and brasen-faced Errors that are or ever were of that litter.

spittle-evil n. = leprosy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > leprosy

spittle-evil?c1225

leperc1275

meselrya1387

lepraa1398

mesela1400

leprosy?a1450

leprosityc1451

lepryc1475

leperhood1491

leperhead1493

leprousnessa1500

lazaryc1503

meselnessc1520

tyre1547

lepernessa1557

satyriasis1587

lazarousness1648

leontiasis1753

cocobay1788

Hansen's disease1938

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 118 Moyses hond..son se he hefde draȝen hire ut of his bosme. bisemde on þe spitel uuel & þuchte leprus.

spittle-founder n.

ΚΠ

1599 G. Chapman Humerous Dayes Myrth sig. D2 Yron and steele, vncharitable stuffe, good spittle-sounders, enemies to whole skinnes.

spittle-holiness n.

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c1548 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 13 Ye are much bounde to God for suche a spittell holines.

spittle-luck n.

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1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 18 Blynde Fortune, stumbling chaunce, spittle lucke.

spittle-mare n.

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1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 44 He gives me a leane lame spittle Mare.

spittle nun n.

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1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. E2 Insatiat goat thou thinkst our wiues are such, As are your holy sisters,..Your spittle nuns.

spittle-position n.

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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 32 They woulde not moue or stir one foote till they had disclaimd and abiurd their bedred spittle-positions.

spittle proctor n.

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1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. v. sig. E3^v Bawds and blinde Doctors. Paritors, and spittle Proctors.

spittle sinner n.

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1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. F4 I will rather choose a Spittle sinner Carted an age before.

spittle villain n.

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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 96^v All y^e rable of other like spittle vilaines.

spittle whore n.

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1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie N j b He is secretary to the spittle whores.

C2. Special combinations.

spittle-house n. = sense 1.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc.

bead-housec1160

spittle?c1225

spittle-housec1315

maison dieu1354

almshouse1395

hospital14..

God's house1425

hospitality1571

townhouse1597

guest house1600

gifts1651

college1694

asylum1776

hospice1818

group home1873

pogey1891

c1315 Shoreham i. 1828 Bote þe syke in-to a spytel hous Entry, þer beþ museles.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 596 Misothonium, a Spytylhous.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 469 Spytylle howse, leprosorium.

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 391 in Poems (1981) 123 He..Delyuerit hir in at the spittaill hous.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spyttle house, laderye.

1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 21 §30 Any Hospitall, Measondue or Spittel House..for the Sustentacion and Relief of pore People.

1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. Gij As it is the Spittle-houses guise, Ouer the gate to write their founders names.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 40 Shee, whom the Spittle-house..Would cast the gorge at.

spittle-man n. an inmate of a spital.

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the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] > in hospital

patientc1387

tanton man1515

spittle-man1593

inpatient1738

day patient1754

in-case1840

hospitaller1857

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > in an institution

spittle-man1593

ordinary1910

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 185 Is it not impossible, for Humanity to be a spittle-man,..History a bankrowt?

1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. K2 Good Preachers, that liue ill (like Spittlemen) Are perfect in the way they neuer went.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxi. 122 They..go up and down the streets with certain Clappers, like our Spittle men.

c. For later references see spital n. 1b.

spittle sermon n. one of the sermons preached on Easter Monday and Tuesday from a special pulpit at St. Mary Spital outside of Bishopsgate (afterwards at St. Bride's and finally at Christ Church in the City).

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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > preached on Easter Monday and Tuesday

spittle sermona1596

spital sermon1755

a1596 Sir Thomas More (1911) i. i. 113 You knowe the spittle sermons begin the next weeke.

a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xlii. 71 in Wks. (1640) III The Lady Mayresse pass'd in through the Towne, Unto the Spittle Sermon.

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spittlen.²

/ˈspɪt(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English spyttle, 1500s spyttel, spytell, spitell, 1500s– spittle.

Etymology: Modification of spattle n.¹ or spettle n., after spit v.²

a. Saliva, spit. to lick, swallow, (one's) spittle: see lick v. 1b, and swallow v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > saliva > [noun]

salivac1400

spittle1481

water1572

mouth-water1961

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

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xv. 100 The spyttle of a man fastyng sleeth comynly the spyncoppe & the tode yf it touche them.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spyttell that cometh out of the mouthe, crachat, saliue.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 97 Although spittle be but an excrement and superfluitie,..yet it is not vnprofitable, because it wetteth and moysteneth the tongue.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ix. 103 Their gums are seen with their teeth, their spittle slavering forth.

1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6152 When he treats of the Tast, he well considers.. the nature of the Spittle.

1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxiv. 169 Those [bodies] that are perfectly dry or hard, have no Taste 'till they are mixed with our Spittle.

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. vii. 84 The priest touched his mouth and ears with spittle.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 96 He put his finger to his mouth, and moistened it with his spittle.

1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands III. lxxvi. 270 Bound back to back, under cats, and dogs, and men's spittle.

b. Scottish. A quantity of saliva ejected at one time.

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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] > spittle > quantity ejected at one time

spittle1722

oyster1785

loogie1967

1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iii. 20 His Floor was a' Tobacco Spitles.

a1815 W. Simson in J. MacIntosh Poets of Ayrshire (1910) 34 Scots rhyme then, though prime then, Will no be worth a spittle.

1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. xxi. 179 A gauze gown..spoilt with a spittle, or ony other foul thing out of the mouth of man.

2. The frothy secretion of an insect. Cf. cuckoo-spit n.¹, cuckoo-spittle n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > gland and secretion > frothy secretion

spittle1821

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 135 Insects of mysterious birth..Hid in knots of spittle white.

Compounds

C1.

spittle-ball n. a ball of chewed paper wet with saliva.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > throwing missiles > a projectile > ball of chewed paper

spitball1846

spittle-ball1885

1885 Leland Brand-new Ballads (ed. 2) 4 As in country schools the urchins cast each one a spittle-ball.

† spittle-bishop n. Obsolete a Roman Catholic bishop (in allusion to the use of spittle in baptism).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [noun] > Roman Catholic

spittle-bishop1555

1555 J. Philpot in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlix. 159 I have ben six tymes in examination, twice before the spitell bishopes.

spittle bug n. U.S. = froghopper n. at frog n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2a; cf. cuckoo-spit n.² 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of family Cercopidae (spit-insects)

wood-sear1585

froghopper?1711

froth-insect1774

froth-worm1774

froth-frog-hopper1816

froth-fly1864

spittle bug1882

spit-insect1950

1882 7th Vermont Agric. Rep. 1881–2 77 Dr. Cutting spoke of the frog hopper, usually known as the spittle bug on grass.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 26/8 Spittle-bug infection has damaged alfalfa fields.

1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xiii. 136 Spittlebugs are named for the sticky, bubbly mass of froth with which the nymphs surround themselves.

spittle-fly n. = spittle-insect n.

Categories »

spittle-insect n. U.S. an insect forming, or bred in, a frothy secretion.

† spittle-wort n. Obsolete pellitory, Anacyclus Pyrethrum.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > pellitory of Spain

asterionc1000

pyrethrumOE

pelletera1400

pellitory1526

bertram1578

spittle-wort1580

Alexander's Foot1597

1580 T. Blundeville Foure Offices Horsemanship (rev. ed.) iv. 43 b Pirethum, otherwise called of some Spittlewort.

C2.

† spittle of the sun n. Obsolete rare gossamer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web > threads floating in air or spread on grass

gossamerc1325

kell?1523

spittle of the sun1568

air thread1753

summer goosea1800

flake1817

1568 T. Hill Certaine Husbandly Coniectures viii. f. 82, in Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) Many long webbes (which some call the spittell of the Sunne) dryuinge in the Ayre, declare wynde, or a tempeste to followe.

† spittle of the stars n. Obsolete honey-dew; nostoc.

ΘΚΠ

honeydew1526

spittle of the stars1577

mildew1658

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 180^v Hony dewe,..a certayne spittell of the starres.

1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 148 When any such matter is found in the Fields, the very Countrey-men cry it fell from Heav'n and the Starres, and, as I remember, call it the Spittle of the Starres.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 133 Pliny affirmed the Hony-dew to bee either the sweat of the heaven, or the slaver or spittle of the stars.

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spittlen.³

Forms: Old English, Middle English spitel (Middle English sputel), Middle English spytelle, spytyll, 1500s spitil, 1500s–1600s spittell; Middle English spitle, 1600s– spittle.

Etymology: Old English spitel (in the combinations hand-, wád-spitel), related to spit n.³, spit v.³Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspittle.

Now dialect.

1. A spade or small spade; a spud.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > spade > small spade

spittlea1100

spittle-staff12..

spitter1600

spaddle1669

spattle1824

Tommya1825

a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 263 Spade, scofle, wadspitel.

12.. [implied in: Ancr. R. 384 Ȝif eax ne kurue, ne þe spade [v.rr. spitel staf, sputel stef] ne dulue. (at spittle-staff n.)].

1334–5 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 69 In iij ferr. emp. pro spitel, 6^d.

1334 Inquisition Post Mortem (P.R.O.: C 135/40/5) m. 9 xxx spitles pro turbie fodiendo in marisco.

1483 Cath. Angl. 356/1 A Spytelle, spata.

1514 in W. H. Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ (1867) III. Introd. p. xl Staves and knives, shovils, spitils, and mattockes.

1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 228 One spittell, ij prig~netts, xij^s.

1617 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 226 Hen. Grymshaye, for a spittle of iron and steele, xiiij^d.

1675 R. Thomas Deposition 11 Aug. in Hereford Consistory Court Rec. (Herefordshire County Rec. Office) (MS.) Digging with a small spade or spittle in his Garden.

1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 355 Spittle, a spaddle, or little spade.

1828– in many dial. glossaries.

2. A hoe or scraper.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > [noun]

scrapec1440

scraper1691

spittle1835

ship-scrapera1884

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > hoe

hoec1430

paddlea1568

sarcle1745

spittle1835

1835 C. Howard Gen. View Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 21 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III This plantation has been kept perfectly clean with the spittle or Dutch hoe.

1835 C. Howard Gen. View Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 21 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III The ground..was kept tolerably clean by the spittle and hand hoe.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 165 Spittle, an iron blade fixed across the end of a staff for scraping a shop floor in muddy weather.

3. A baking implement; a shovel or peel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > baker's shovel

peel1396

forkin?a1500

baking peel?1562

beal1598

oven peel1603

spittle1838

pale1857

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Spittle, a board used in turning oat cakes.

1876–83 in Yks. and Lanc. glossaries.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as spittle fork, spittle-maker, spittle-spade. See also spittle-staff n.

ΚΠ

14.. Tundale's Vis. 724 Summe had..nawg[er]es, Cultorus, syþus kene wytall, Spytyll-forkus þe sowlys to fall.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 608 Let there bee then either a small furrow rased along just through the middest of the shaddow with a spittle spade, or the point of some hooke.

?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 43 Spittle Maker (Spade Handle).

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spittlev.¹

/ˈspɪt(ə)l/

Forms: Also Middle English spitel.

Etymology: In early use < spit v.² + -le suffix; later < spittle n.²

rare.

1. intransitive. To eject spittle; to spit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] > spit

spattlec1000

spetec1000

spittlec1340

spit1377

spetc1421

fipple?1507

reach1540

spawl1599

spatter1618

sputter1681

expectorate1823

gob1881

flob1977

c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 154 F[emme] coupe pur vn muche, W[oman] spitelith for a flie.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby It was once the custom ‘to spittle’ at the name of the Devil in church.

2. transitive. To make foul with spittle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with saliva or spittle

spitc950

sputea1225

bespetea1240

bedravel1377

spouta1382

bespitc1384

beslobber1393

spew1526

slabber1579

beslaver1589

slaver1591

spittle1596

bespawl1602

drivel1609

bedribble1620

slop1696

bedrivel1721

slake1808

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F2 To helpe his bedred stuffe to limpe out of Powles Churchyard, that else would haue laine vnrepriuably spittled at the Chandlers.

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spittlev.²

Etymology: < spittle n.³Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspittle.

rare.

transitive. To dig (in), to pare, etc., with a spittle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig

delvec888

to dig up1377

diga1425

pastine?1440

updelvec1440

upstockc1440

hack1620

pastinate1623

repastinate1623

spit1648

spittle1727

spud1828

1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner 158 Dig it into the ground, but not deep, only just spittle it in, as gardiners term it.

1807 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Gloucester 155 About the beginning of June,..they [sc. plants] are ‘spittled’, that is, the work~man, with a..small spade, turns over the surface mould carefully between every plant.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Spittle, to pare off the surface of the ground.

Derivatives

ˈspittling n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging > digging to spade depth

spitting1594

spading1647

spittling1807

spudding1885

1807 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Gloucester 156 Spittling generally costs a guinea and a half an acre.

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n.¹?c1225

n.²1481

n.³a1100

v.¹c1340

v.²1727

单词	spittle
释义	† spittlen.¹ Forms: α. Middle English, 1500s spitel (Middle English spitele), Middle English–1500s spitell; Middle English spytel, Middle English spytelle, spytyl, Middle English–1500s spytylle; Middle English spetel, 1500s spetylle; Middle English–1500s spittell, 1500s spittel, Scottish spittaill, spyttell, spyttyll(e, spettell, spettylle. β. 1500s spyttle, 1500s–1600s spitle, 1500s–1800s spittle. γ. 1600s spitol, spitoll. See also spital n. Etymology: Middle English spitel , spittel , etc., = Middle Low German spittel , spettel , Middle High German spittel , spittol (German spittel ), ultimately representing an aphetic form of hospital n., modified on the analogy of native words in -el. Forms with more original ending appear in Old High German spitâl (spitaul; German spital), Middle Low German spittâl, spettâl, Middle Dutch spit(t)-, spetael, Middle Danish spital, spedal, Middle Swedish spital(e, spetal(e, Icelandic spítal, -ali. The common source of these is apparently Italian or Levantine: compare Italian spedale, dialect spitale, modern Greek σπιτάλι; also medieval Latin spitalerius (1342 in Du Cange), medieval Greek σπιταλιώτης (c1350). Obsolete. 1. a. A house or place for the reception of the indigent or diseased; a charitable foundation for this purpose, esp. one chiefly occupied by persons of a low class or afflicted with foul diseases; a lazar-house. (Now written spital n.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc. bead-housec1160 spittle?c1225 spittle-housec1315 maison dieu1354 almshouse1395 hospital14.. God's house1425 hospitality1571 townhouse1597 guest house1600 gifts1651 college1694 asylum1776 hospice1818 group home1873 pogey1891 α. ?c1225 [see spittle-evil n. at Compounds 1]. c1315 [see spittle-house n. at Compounds 2a]. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Kings ii. 34 (margin) Rabi Salomon seith, that he made in desert a spitele for pore men. c1400 Rom. Rose 6505 Whanne I see beggers quakyng,..Lete bere hem to the spitel anoon. c1425 St. Mary of Oignies ii. ii, in Anglia VIII. 152 Houses of mesels, þat are callid spitellis. a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.iv^v At..saynt Mary Spyttell They set not by vs a whystell. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 43 At sent Mary spettell, the iij. dayes in Ester weke, preched the vicar of Stepney one Jerome. β. 1571 [see sense 1b]. 1577 [see sense 1b]. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4^v May they lie and starue in some miserable spittle . View more context for this quotation 1606 [see sense 1b]. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 150 We descended from this..to the Spittle, where we found the Poor faring well from their Benefactors.1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. lxxvi She felt, or fancy'd..All the diseases which the spittles know.1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 129 Burton Lazars..being the chief of all the spittles and lazar houses in England. b. Distinguished from hospital, as being of a lower class than this. ΚΠ 1571 E. Grindal Articles B iv b Whether your Hospitals, Spittles, and almose houses be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and auncient ordinances of the same. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. v. sig. Kvj^v/1 There is mention made..of Hospitals for olde men, of spittles for beggars. 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. B4 He..for widdowes buildes Almes-houses, Spittles, and large Hospitals. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. iii. 524 Put vp a supplication to him in the name of..an hospitall, a spittle, a prison. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 385 They were fitter, if any were alive, for some Spittle or Hospitall, then for any service that they were able to do for Herod. 1692 J. P. New Guide Constables 105 Whether their Almshouses, Hospital, School or Spittle, if they have any, be well and godly used. c. transferred. (See quot. 1665.) ΚΠ 1665 Voy. E. India 437 The Banians..have Spittles (as they say) on purpose to recover lame Birds and Beasts. 2. to rob the spittle, to make gain or profit in a particularly mean or dastardly manner. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer to rob the spittle1632 to rob the spital1749 to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908 profiteer1917 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies i. xciv Of all men, Vs'rers are not least accurst; They robb the Spittle; pinch th' Afflicted worst. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum i. ii. 85 To what end steal from the Reformed Churches? which had been meerely to rob the Spittle. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 207 Robbing the Spittle. 1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 79 I am not to..ruin a Family, or rob the Spittle, to redress his Grievances. 3. figurative. A foul receptacle or collection. Const. of. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] fenc888 longayne1340 sloven's inn?1518 slut's corner1570 sink1590 Augean stable1596 spittle1624 spital1771 expectoratory1836 mill-tail1854 stable1903 pisshole1928 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ix. 438 Making their corrupt bodies no better than sinkes of sinnes, and spittles of diseases. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xv. 192 Their souls have been the Chappells of sanctity, whose bodies have been the Spitolls of deformity. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila x. x. 180 Gluttons, who make themselves Spittles of each Disease. Compounds C1. General attributive. spittle-beggar n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vn gueux de l'ostiere, a rogue, vagabond, or Spittle begger. spittle-door n. ΚΠ 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 20 The least Error, if grown sturdy and pressed, shall set open the Spittle-doore of all the squint-ey'd, wry-necked, and brasen-faced Errors that are or ever were of that litter. spittle-evil n. = leprosy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > leprosy spittle-evil?c1225 leperc1275 meselrya1387 lepraa1398 mesela1400 leprosy?a1450 leprosityc1451 lepryc1475 leperhood1491 leperhead1493 leprousnessa1500 lazaryc1503 meselnessc1520 tyre1547 lepernessa1557 satyriasis1587 lazarousness1648 leontiasis1753 cocobay1788 Hansen's disease1938 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 118 Moyses hond..son se he hefde draȝen hire ut of his bosme. bisemde on þe spitel uuel & þuchte leprus. spittle-founder n. ΚΠ 1599 G. Chapman Humerous Dayes Myrth sig. D2 Yron and steele, vncharitable stuffe, good spittle-sounders, enemies to whole skinnes. spittle-holiness n. ΚΠ c1548 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 13 Ye are much bounde to God for suche a spittell holines. spittle-luck n. ΚΠ 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 18 Blynde Fortune, stumbling chaunce, spittle lucke. spittle-mare n. ΚΠ 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 44 He gives me a leane lame spittle Mare. spittle nun n. ΚΠ 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. E2 Insatiat goat thou thinkst our wiues are such, As are your holy sisters,..Your spittle nuns. spittle-position n. ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 32 They woulde not moue or stir one foote till they had disclaimd and abiurd their bedred spittle-positions. spittle proctor n. ΚΠ 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. v. sig. E3^v Bawds and blinde Doctors. Paritors, and spittle Proctors. spittle sinner n. ΚΠ 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. F4 I will rather choose a Spittle sinner Carted an age before. spittle villain n. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 96^v All y^e rable of other like spittle vilaines. spittle whore n. ΚΠ 1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie N j b He is secretary to the spittle whores. C2. Special combinations. a. spittle-house n. = sense 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc. bead-housec1160 spittle?c1225 spittle-housec1315 maison dieu1354 almshouse1395 hospital14.. God's house1425 hospitality1571 townhouse1597 guest house1600 gifts1651 college1694 asylum1776 hospice1818 group home1873 pogey1891 c1315 Shoreham i. 1828 Bote þe syke in-to a spytel hous Entry, þer beþ museles. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 596 Misothonium, a Spytylhous. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 469 Spytylle howse, leprosorium. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 391 in Poems (1981) 123 He..Delyuerit hir in at the spittaill hous. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spyttle house, laderye. 1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 21 §30 Any Hospitall, Measondue or Spittel House..for the Sustentacion and Relief of pore People. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. Gij As it is the Spittle-houses guise, Ouer the gate to write their founders names. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 40 Shee, whom the Spittle-house..Would cast the gorge at. View more context for this quotation b. spittle-man n. an inmate of a spital. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] > in hospital patientc1387 tanton man1515 spittle-man1593 inpatient1738 day patient1754 in-case1840 hospitaller1857 the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > in an institution spittle-man1593 ordinary1910 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 185 Is it not impossible, for Humanity to be a spittle-man,..History a bankrowt? 1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. K2 Good Preachers, that liue ill (like Spittlemen) Are perfect in the way they neuer went. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxi. 122 They..go up and down the streets with certain Clappers, like our Spittle men. c. For later references see spital n. 1b. spittle sermon n. one of the sermons preached on Easter Monday and Tuesday from a special pulpit at St. Mary Spital outside of Bishopsgate (afterwards at St. Bride's and finally at Christ Church in the City). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > preached on Easter Monday and Tuesday spittle sermona1596 spital sermon1755 a1596 Sir Thomas More (1911) i. i. 113 You knowe the spittle sermons begin the next weeke. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xlii. 71 in Wks. (1640) III The Lady Mayresse pass'd in through the Towne, Unto the Spittle Sermon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). spittlen.² /ˈspɪt(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English spyttle, 1500s spyttel, spytell, spitell, 1500s– spittle. Etymology: Modification of spattle n.¹ or spettle n., after spit v.² 1. a. Saliva, spit. to lick, swallow, (one's) spittle: see lick v. 1b, and swallow v. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > saliva > [noun] salivac1400 spittle1481 water1572 mouth-water1961 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 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xv. 100 The spyttle of a man fastyng sleeth comynly the spyncoppe & the tode yf it touche them. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spyttell that cometh out of the mouthe, crachat, saliue. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 97 Although spittle be but an excrement and superfluitie,..yet it is not vnprofitable, because it wetteth and moysteneth the tongue. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ix. 103 Their gums are seen with their teeth, their spittle slavering forth. 1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6152 When he treats of the Tast, he well considers.. the nature of the Spittle. 1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxiv. 169 Those [bodies] that are perfectly dry or hard, have no Taste 'till they are mixed with our Spittle. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. vii. 84 The priest touched his mouth and ears with spittle. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 96 He put his finger to his mouth, and moistened it with his spittle. 1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands III. lxxvi. 270 Bound back to back, under cats, and dogs, and men's spittle. b. Scottish. A quantity of saliva ejected at one time. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > slaver > [noun] > spittle > quantity ejected at one time spittle1722 oyster1785 loogie1967 1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iii. 20 His Floor was a' Tobacco Spitles. a1815 W. Simson in J. MacIntosh Poets of Ayrshire (1910) 34 Scots rhyme then, though prime then, Will no be worth a spittle. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. xxi. 179 A gauze gown..spoilt with a spittle, or ony other foul thing out of the mouth of man. 2. The frothy secretion of an insect. Cf. cuckoo-spit n.¹, cuckoo-spittle n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > gland and secretion > frothy secretion spittle1821 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 135 Insects of mysterious birth..Hid in knots of spittle white. Compounds C1. spittle-ball n. a ball of chewed paper wet with saliva. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > throwing missiles > a projectile > ball of chewed paper spitball1846 spittle-ball1885 1885 Leland Brand-new Ballads (ed. 2) 4 As in country schools the urchins cast each one a spittle-ball. † spittle-bishop n. Obsolete a Roman Catholic bishop (in allusion to the use of spittle in baptism). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [noun] > Roman Catholic spittle-bishop1555 1555 J. Philpot in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlix. 159 I have ben six tymes in examination, twice before the spitell bishopes. spittle bug n. U.S. = froghopper n. at frog n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2a; cf. cuckoo-spit n.² 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of family Cercopidae (spit-insects) wood-sear1585 froghopper?1711 froth-insect1774 froth-worm1774 froth-frog-hopper1816 froth-fly1864 spittle bug1882 spit-insect1950 1882 7th Vermont Agric. Rep. 1881–2 77 Dr. Cutting spoke of the frog hopper, usually known as the spittle bug on grass. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 26/8 Spittle-bug infection has damaged alfalfa fields. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xiii. 136 Spittlebugs are named for the sticky, bubbly mass of froth with which the nymphs surround themselves. spittle-fly n. = spittle-insect n. Categories » spittle-insect n. U.S. an insect forming, or bred in, a frothy secretion. † spittle-wort n. Obsolete pellitory, Anacyclus Pyrethrum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > pellitory of Spain asterionc1000 pyrethrumOE pelletera1400 pellitory1526 bertram1578 spittle-wort1580 Alexander's Foot1597 1580 T. Blundeville Foure Offices Horsemanship (rev. ed.) iv. 43 b Pirethum, otherwise called of some Spittlewort. C2. † spittle of the sun n. Obsolete rare gossamer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web > threads floating in air or spread on grass gossamerc1325 kell?1523 spittle of the sun1568 air thread1753 summer goosea1800 flake1817 1568 T. Hill Certaine Husbandly Coniectures viii. f. 82, in Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) Many long webbes (which some call the spittell of the Sunne) dryuinge in the Ayre, declare wynde, or a tempeste to followe. † spittle of the stars n. Obsolete honey-dew; nostoc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > substance excreted honeydew1526 spittle of the stars1577 mildew1658 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 180^v Hony dewe,..a certayne spittell of the starres. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 148 When any such matter is found in the Fields, the very Countrey-men cry it fell from Heav'n and the Starres, and, as I remember, call it the Spittle of the Starres. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 133 Pliny affirmed the Hony-dew to bee either the sweat of the heaven, or the slaver or spittle of the stars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021). spittlen.³ Forms: Old English, Middle English spitel (Middle English sputel), Middle English spytelle, spytyll, 1500s spitil, 1500s–1600s spittell; Middle English spitle, 1600s– spittle. Etymology: Old English spitel (in the combinations hand-, wád-spitel), related to spit n.³, spit v.³Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspittle. Now dialect. 1. A spade or small spade; a spud. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > spade > small spade spittlea1100 spittle-staff12.. spitter1600 spaddle1669 spattle1824 Tommya1825 a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 263 Spade, scofle, wadspitel. 12.. [implied in: Ancr. R. 384 Ȝif eax ne kurue, ne þe spade [v.rr. spitel staf, sputel stef] ne dulue. (at spittle-staff n.)]. 1334–5 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 69 In iij ferr. emp. pro spitel, 6^d. 1334 Inquisition Post Mortem (P.R.O.: C 135/40/5) m. 9 xxx spitles pro turbie fodiendo in marisco. 1483 Cath. Angl. 356/1 A Spytelle, spata. 1514 in W. H. Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ (1867) III. Introd. p. xl Staves and knives, shovils, spitils, and mattockes. 1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 228 One spittell, ij prig~netts, xij^s. 1617 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 226 Hen. Grymshaye, for a spittle of iron and steele, xiiij^d. 1675 R. Thomas Deposition 11 Aug. in Hereford Consistory Court Rec. (Herefordshire County Rec. Office) (MS.) Digging with a small spade or spittle in his Garden. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 355 Spittle, a spaddle, or little spade. 1828– in many dial. glossaries. 2. A hoe or scraper. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > [noun] scrapec1440 scraper1691 spittle1835 ship-scrapera1884 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > hoe hoec1430 paddlea1568 sarcle1745 spittle1835 1835 C. Howard Gen. View Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 21 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III This plantation has been kept perfectly clean with the spittle or Dutch hoe. 1835 C. Howard Gen. View Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 21 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III The ground..was kept tolerably clean by the spittle and hand hoe. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 165 Spittle, an iron blade fixed across the end of a staff for scraping a shop floor in muddy weather. 3. A baking implement; a shovel or peel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > baker's shovel peel1396 forkin?a1500 baking peel?1562 beal1598 oven peel1603 spittle1838 pale1857 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Spittle, a board used in turning oat cakes. 1876–83 in Yks. and Lanc. glossaries. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as spittle fork, spittle-maker, spittle-spade. See also spittle-staff n. ΚΠ 14.. Tundale's Vis. 724 Summe had..nawg[er]es, Cultorus, syþus kene wytall, Spytyll-forkus þe sowlys to fall. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 608 Let there bee then either a small furrow rased along just through the middest of the shaddow with a spittle spade, or the point of some hooke. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 43 Spittle Maker (Spade Handle). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). spittlev.¹ /ˈspɪt(ə)l/ Forms: Also Middle English spitel. Etymology: In early use < spit v.² + -le suffix; later < spittle n.² rare. 1. intransitive. To eject spittle; to spit. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] > spit spattlec1000 spetec1000 spittlec1340 spit1377 spetc1421 fipple?1507 reach1540 spawl1599 spatter1618 sputter1681 expectorate1823 gob1881 flob1977 c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 154 F[emme] coupe pur vn muche, W[oman] spitelith for a flie. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby It was once the custom ‘to spittle’ at the name of the Devil in church. 2. transitive. To make foul with spittle. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with saliva or spittle spitc950 sputea1225 bespetea1240 bedravel1377 spouta1382 bespitc1384 beslobber1393 spew1526 slabber1579 beslaver1589 slaver1591 spittle1596 bespawl1602 drivel1609 bedribble1620 slop1696 bedrivel1721 slake1808 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F2 To helpe his bedred stuffe to limpe out of Powles Churchyard, that else would haue laine vnrepriuably spittled at the Chandlers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). spittlev.² Etymology: < spittle n.³Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspittle. rare. transitive. To dig (in), to pare, etc., with a spittle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig delvec888 to dig up1377 diga1425 pastine?1440 updelvec1440 upstockc1440 hack1620 pastinate1623 repastinate1623 spit1648 spittle1727 spud1828 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner 158 Dig it into the ground, but not deep, only just spittle it in, as gardiners term it. 1807 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Gloucester 155 About the beginning of June,..they [sc. plants] are ‘spittled’, that is, the work~man, with a..small spade, turns over the surface mould carefully between every plant. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Spittle, to pare off the surface of the ground. Derivatives ˈspittling n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging > digging to spade depth spitting1594 spading1647 spittling1807 spudding1885 1807 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Gloucester 156 Spittling generally costs a guinea and a half an acre. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.¹?c1225n.²1481n.³a1100v.¹c1340v.²1727
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