单词 | outspit |
释义 | outspitv.ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (transitive)] > spit spitc975 spetec1000 spitc1386 outspita1425 spet1532 exspute1705 gob1933 a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 1621 Of sum weore þe brayn out-spat [c1400 Laud out squatt], Al vndur þeo iren hat. 1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. R 2 Whose gummes the palsie so to ods did set, That they their loosed teeth did all out spet. 1833 E. B. Browning Vision of Life & Death in Poet. Wks. (1897) 64 She said, that tongue, all eloquent, With silent dust did mate; Whereon false friends betray'd long faith, And foes outspat their hate. 1857 J. A. Heraud Judgem. of Flood (rev. ed.) ii. v. 152 Unquenched, its jaggèd jaws still oped, and closed, Like to a dragon's mouth, outspitting fire. 2. transitive. To surpass in spitting; to spit further than. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (transitive)] > spit > outdo or surpass in spitting outspit1702 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xviii. clxi. 279 Menander..by, That cankering liquor so infected grew That Simon he outspit in Heresy. 1958 M. S. Waggoner Long Haul West viii. 140 Any skinnylegged, canal-bitten hoggee could drive almost as soon as he could walk, and could outrun, outswear, and outspit his elders. 1990 Daily Tel. 23 June 12/6 One of them spat upon me as I passed and d..d me for a landowner, but I outspat him, thanks to my long practice upon foreigners and Dissenters. 1999 N. Sandrow tr. God, Man & Devil 310 It seems to me that somebody has already spit further. He's already been outspat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1425 |
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