spet

See also: spēt and spět

English

Etymology

From Middle English spet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

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.

Verb

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.

References

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

Anagrams

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

Indonesian

Noun

spet (uncountable)

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

Middle English

Etymology

From speten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛt/

Noun

spet (plural spets)

1. (Late Middle English, hapax) spittle

Descendants

• English: spet
• Yola: speate

References

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

Polabian

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German Spêt.

Noun

spet m ?

1. spear

References

• 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

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spéːt/

Adverb

spẹ̑t

1. again, once more

Further reading

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English spit.

Noun

spet

1. saliva

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English spit.

Noun

spet

1. saliva

Volapük

Noun

spet (nominative plural spets)

1. hope

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