Lexicographical Neighbors of Spetting
Literary usage of Spetting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard African Studies by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology African Dept (1922)
"He also helped me to translate the songs of The Gatta spetting Book l and gave me
... The proverbs and the riddles of The Gatta spetting Book have also been ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Chaucer has it for a churchyard. HAWK [hauk] vb. To make a noise when clearing
the throat of phlegm. An imitative word. " He was hawking and spetting for ..."
3. History of American Journalism by James Melvin Lee (1917)
"We, for the same reason that our brother Typographers use, forbear publishing
that Bibles, Testaments, Psalters, spetting-Books, Primers, Almanacks, ..."
4. Manipulus vocabulorum: a rhyming dictionary of the English language by Peter Levens (1867)
"SPET or spetting, sputum, i. • A TETTE, papilla, ce, vber. to FET, or fetch,
ad/erre. to SLETE, plicare. to GET issue, ..."
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