spet

From Middle English 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, volume (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: […] [Comus], 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 (plural spet-spet)

1. alternative spelling of sepuit (“syringe”)

From speten.

• IPA^(key): /spɛt/

spet (plural spets)

1. (Late Middle English, hapax legomenon) spittle

• English: spet
• Yola: speate

• “spet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Low German Spêt.

spet m ?

1. spear

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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Polański, Kazimierz (1993) “spet”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 5 (sahi – ťüzǝc), Warszawa: Energeia, page 746
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “spet”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 136
• Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Spêt”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1047

• IPA^(key): /spéːt/

spẹ̑t

1. again, once more

• “spet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “spet”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From English spit.

spet

1. saliva

From English spit.

spet

1. saliva

spet (nominative plural spets)

1. hope