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Definition of Spitting image
1. Noun. A perfect likeness or counterpart.
Definition of Spitting image
1. Noun. (colloquial) The exact likeness (of someone). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spitting Image
Literary usage of Spitting image
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"spitting image was once commonly cited as an error, in dictionaries and ...
1983 I could swear it's the spitting image of the house I saw —David M. Schwartz ..."
2. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1849)
"Though he succeeded in getting them unperceived into his den, his fire-spitting
image had no fears for the enraged loser, who was too familiar with such ..."
3. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1858)
"Though he succeeded in getting them unperceived into his den, his fire-spitting
image had no fears for the enraged loser, who was too familiar with such ..."
4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1851)
"... his fire-spitting image had DO fears for the enraged loser, who was too familiar
with such things to Jread them. This primitive prevalence of robbery ..."
5. The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and by Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (1916)
""spitting image"—A rather inelegant term, implying a striking resemblance, as of
a child to a parent; but why "spitting" no one seems to know. ..."
6. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1898)
"A man who looks like another man is said to be " the spitting image of him."
Sometimes the figure is carried a little further and to a closer likeness with ..."
7. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"Tiny, malformed, and bandy-legged, it was still the spitting image of him.
Had Davey been holding on to it all these years? Tending it in a cage? ..."
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