Lexic.us

Definition of Spit up

1. Verb. Give reluctantly. "He coughed up some money for his children's tuition"

2. Verb. Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth.

Definition of Spit up

1. Verb. (transitive and intransitive especially of children) To regurgitate or vomit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spit Up

spit spit-and-polish spit-ball spit-take spit-up spit and bailing wire spit and polish spit curl spit curls spit it out

spit of land spit out spit take spit the dummy spit up (current term) spit wad spit wads spital spitalhouse spitalhouses

spitals spitball spitballed spitballing spitbox spitboxes spitbug spitbugs

Literary usage of Spit up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Diseases of the Liver by George Budd (1857)
"After a time, if the tumor be large and well stored with hydatids, larger hydatids are spit up, and now and then, after an unusually hard fit of coughing ..."

2. Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine by Robert James Graves (1864)
"It is also clea: blood be detained for some time in the air cells and bronchial 1 become coagulated and be spit up in clots. Many of the worst ting of blood ..."

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