spiter

See also: spițer

English

Etymology

From spite +‎ -er.

Noun

spiter (plural spiters)

1. One who spites (someone).
   • 1841, [Anna Austen Lefroy], “The Captive”, in The Winter’s Tale: To Which Is Added Little Bertram’s Dream, London: James Burns, […], pages 60–61:

     “[…] Old Mordred and Ursil hate me, and I hate them; they spite me now, and when I can, I shall spite them.” / “Ah!” said Morgan, remembering his own expressions the evening before, when overheard by Father Aidan, “so I suppose we all are by nature.” / “All are what?” asked his companion. / “All haters and spiters of our enemies.” / “To be sure we are,” replied the girl; “it comes to us, as you say, naturally. […]”

   • 1966, Mordechai Nurock, Misha Louvish, transl., edited by David Ben-Gurion, The Jews in their Land, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 205:

     They considered that the sanctity of the mount had been ‹ brutally trampled on by the spiters of the Lord › when ‹ Ammonites, Moabites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, and Hagarites came bringing coffins and all kinds of unclean things to it. ›

   • 2001, The American Scholar, volume 70, Washington, D.C.: Phi Beta Kappa, →ISSN, page 20:

     For sheer blasphemous defiance, his moonlit scene rivals for me the great God-spiters of myth and literature: Dante’s Vanni Fucci, looking solemnly up to Heaven from Inferno XXV and flipping the Almighty the thirteenth-century equivalent of the Italian salute; Prometheus himself, writhing on his rock, forever unrepentant.

   • 2013, “Delivery 4”, in Ravens Station Steward, →ISBN:

     From the hand of the Lord, however, a spirit atween the king and his sleep; till the king reasoned that for reward to Mordecai, he should be set up on high; and with this, the crown set upon his head: as it was revealed that Mordecai had spoiled a plan spun together by the venomous spiters of the king.

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi.te/

Verb

spiter

1. to spatter, to splash