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Cuspidor

noun
1.
A receptacle for spit (usually in a public place).  Synonym: spittoon.






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"Cuspidor" Quotes from Famous Books



... point a sudden scraping of a chair, the clatter of an overturned cuspidor and a stout, elderly man at the rear of the room ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow

... I can!" shouted Eddie, growing two inches taller in an instant. He took the package of crape from his pocket and threw it into a cuspidor. Then he sighed profoundly. "Gad, have you ever felt like another man, ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon

... hands, and, taking the warm pelisse, lined even up to the lapel, with fur from the neck of the sable, which Pao-y had put on on getting up, she threw it over her shoulders and went below and washed her hands in the basin. Then filling first a cup with tepid water, she brought a large cuspidor for Pao-y to wash his mouth. Afterwards, she drew near the tea-case, and getting a cup, she first rinsed it with lukewarm water, and pouring half a cup of tea from the warm teapot, she handed it to Pao-y. After he had done, she herself rinsed her mouth, and swallowed ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... it?" he demanded of Jadwin, as he took the slip back. "Won't forget it?" He twisted the paper into a roll and burned it carefully in the office cuspidor. ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris



Words linked to "Cuspidor" :   receptacle



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