spet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɛt/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Verb
spet (third-person singular simple present spets, present participle spetting, simple past and past participle spetted)
- To spit; to throw out.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
- the dragon […] spets her thickest gloom
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Indonesian
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spéːt/
Further reading
- “spet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Volapük
Declension
declension of spet
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spet | spets |
| genitive | speta | spetas |
| dative | spete | spetes |
| accusative | speti | spetis |
| vocative 1 | o spet! | o spets! |
| predicative 2 | spetu | spetus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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