spet

• IPA^(key): /spɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

spet (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) spittle
   • 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     Well, when I found 'twas Sir Blount my spet dried up within me.

spet (third-person singular simple present spets, present participle spetting, simple past and past participle spetted)

1. To spit; to throw out.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; 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:

     the dragon […] spets her thickest gloom

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     A thirsty Train That […] spet from their dry Chaps the gather'd dust again.

• “spet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, Pest, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, sept, sept-, step, step-

spet (first-person possessive spetku, second-person possessive spetmu, third-person possessive spetnya)

1. alternative spelling of sepuit (“syringe”).

• IPA^(key): /spéːt/

spẹ̑t

1. again, once more

• “spet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From English spit.

spet

1. saliva

From English spit.

spet

1. saliva

spet (nominative plural spets)

1. hope