spitter

English

Etymology 1

From spit (“rod; skewer”) +‎ -er.

Alternative forms

• spittard

Noun

spitter (plural spitters)

1. One who puts meat on a spit.
2. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

Translations

young deer

Etymology 2

From spit (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

spitter (plural spitters)

2. Someone who spits.
   • 2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107:

     After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.

4. (baseball) Synonym of spitball.
6. (herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.
8. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.

Derived terms

• spitters are quitters (vulgar)

Translations

one that spits

• Finnish: sylkijä
• Latin: spūtātor m
• Russian: плева́льщик m (pleválʹščik), плева́льщица f (pleválʹščica)
• Serbo-Croatian: pljùvāč (sh) m, pljuvàčica (sh) f

baseball sense — see spitball

Anagrams

• Pitters, pitters, tipster