单词 | to spit up |
释义 | > as lemmasto spit up to spit up Chiefly North American. transitive and intransitive. Of a baby: to regurgitate (food, drink, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (transitive)] > regurgitate regurgitate1578 regorge1583 to spit up1885 1885 Arch. Pediatrics 2 275 Many children overload their stomachs when it is reasonable to expect that some of the milk will be ‘spit up’, slightly curdled. 1935 D. Paterson & J. F. Smith Mod. Methods Feeding in Infancy & Childhood (ed. 5) vii. 113 Nearly every infant is inclined to posset or spit up a few teaspoonfuls of its feed, usually immediately after the feed is finished. 1979 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 13 Aug. 37/2 My seven-month-old son still spits up excessively and projectile vomits several times a day. 1992 Bounty Infant Care Guide (ed. 2) 70/1 Make sure you also have plenty of shirts as your baby will continuously dribble and spit up on them. 2006 J. M. Sobrer tr. M. Rodoreda Broken Mirror i. v. 29 ‘She..hasn't stopped spitting up milk..,’ the nurse told her when she brought the crying child into the dining room. 2015 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 29 Nov. e9 When we are running errands and my baby spits up, I wipe off as much as I can. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。