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单词 spittoon
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Definition of spittoon in English:

spittoon

noun spɪˈtuːnspɪˈtun
  • A metal or earthenware pot typically having a funnel-shaped top, used for spitting into.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The little man spat and the spittle ran down the side of the spittoon where he'd missed.
    • Littering and spitting are regulated by advising awareness against them and by conveniently yet discreetly located garbage bins and spittoons, efficiently maintained by the civic authorities.
    • Men and women may be employed to carry spittoons to enable paan chewers to spit in them.
    • Spitting on the deck might mean carrying a spittoon around; dirty clothing could mean a sailor was condemned to carry it for a certain time lashed to an oar.
    • I can feel a burgeoning market for spittoons just around the corner.
    • In a perfect world, she would then have directed a stream of blackened tobacco spit dead into the centre of a freshly-cleaned spittoon, making a brassy clanging noise.
    • Imagine thinking the lack of a spittoon entitles you to spit on the stairs repeatedly and to be disdainful of the poor old woman who has had to clean it up for being insufficiently happy to see you!
    • To the immediate left was a long, paneled bar with a rusty foot rail and spittoons lining the bottom.
    • When he could see again, Jackson spat into the brass spittoon by his side.
    • Dinesh Sardar wants waste-bins and spittoons to be set up wherever possible to reduce littering and spitting.
    • In more elegant surroundings, you spit into a spittoon, usually a simple container like a large bowl (one per taster) or an ice bucket that two or three tasters share.
    • It's the only place in Britain I've ever seen spittoons.
    • Out went the spittoons and in came the chandeliers.
    • Over a burger the size of Birmingham we get talking to local resident, Gary Fish, who recalls his boyhood at The Sport emptying the cowboy's spittoons for a nickel.
    • He turned his head to the opposite wall and spat a stream of tobacco juice toward a spittoon.
    • People expect spittoons and grotty seating.
    • Meukow's foul, gilded, sour vanilla, mawkish chocolate and rotting tropical fruit salad-spiked Black Panther bottle was so feral that I only just reached the spittoon in time.
    • Suffice it to say it had something to do with spittoons, and I failed to enter.
    • My onion soup gratinée was thick as lava and arrived in a bowl the size of a small spittoon.
    • Keyboards are banned as harmful and can be found in museums, next to punch cards and spittoons.

Rhymes

afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon
 
 

Definition of spittoon in US English:

spittoon

nounspiˈto͞onspɪˈtun
  • A metal or earthenware pot typically having a funnel-shaped top, used for spitting into.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I can feel a burgeoning market for spittoons just around the corner.
    • Meukow's foul, gilded, sour vanilla, mawkish chocolate and rotting tropical fruit salad-spiked Black Panther bottle was so feral that I only just reached the spittoon in time.
    • Imagine thinking the lack of a spittoon entitles you to spit on the stairs repeatedly and to be disdainful of the poor old woman who has had to clean it up for being insufficiently happy to see you!
    • When he could see again, Jackson spat into the brass spittoon by his side.
    • My onion soup gratinée was thick as lava and arrived in a bowl the size of a small spittoon.
    • The little man spat and the spittle ran down the side of the spittoon where he'd missed.
    • It's the only place in Britain I've ever seen spittoons.
    • People expect spittoons and grotty seating.
    • Out went the spittoons and in came the chandeliers.
    • He turned his head to the opposite wall and spat a stream of tobacco juice toward a spittoon.
    • In more elegant surroundings, you spit into a spittoon, usually a simple container like a large bowl (one per taster) or an ice bucket that two or three tasters share.
    • Littering and spitting are regulated by advising awareness against them and by conveniently yet discreetly located garbage bins and spittoons, efficiently maintained by the civic authorities.
    • Suffice it to say it had something to do with spittoons, and I failed to enter.
    • Keyboards are banned as harmful and can be found in museums, next to punch cards and spittoons.
    • Over a burger the size of Birmingham we get talking to local resident, Gary Fish, who recalls his boyhood at The Sport emptying the cowboy's spittoons for a nickel.
    • Dinesh Sardar wants waste-bins and spittoons to be set up wherever possible to reduce littering and spitting.
    • To the immediate left was a long, paneled bar with a rusty foot rail and spittoons lining the bottom.
    • Spitting on the deck might mean carrying a spittoon around; dirty clothing could mean a sailor was condemned to carry it for a certain time lashed to an oar.
    • In a perfect world, she would then have directed a stream of blackened tobacco spit dead into the centre of a freshly-cleaned spittoon, making a brassy clanging noise.
    • Men and women may be employed to carry spittoons to enable paan chewers to spit in them.
 
 
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