💦 To expel saliva 😠 To speak angrily 💧 Saliva 🏝️ Narrow land strip 🍖 A roasting rod 🍢 To skewer food 🌦️ To drizzle

to spit

315 1.0

To force liquid out of the mouth, often onto the ground

verb
/spɪt/

: escupir

If you don’t like the food, just spit it out instead of causing a scene.
spit on the ground
chew and spit
sometimes spit

I'm fine with that, but don't spit in my food, Jackie.

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Examples

Sorry I spit in your eye, bro.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
I mean, I spit when I talk sometimes, too, you know?

The Benchwarmers (2006)
So those of you who did it, spit it out right away.
You need to spit it out!

Migration (2023)
Please don't make me spit it out because this is the first time I do this and it's not comfortable.

Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)
You hold the bottle up, and you spit it out about five feet while you're doing it.

Behind the Burly Q (2010)
Spit it out.

Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
Then, hoisting a large sack in one hand, he spit out something at Miranda before running away.

Fiction book (1990)
While he chewed, rubbed his teeth, and spit out saliva, he talked.

Fiction book (1991)
When he was angry, he would often spit out his insults without thinking.

Synonyms

to spit out

vsto spit

94 2.3

To push food or drink out of your mouth

is the single verb form used for the same quick aggressive ejection

to spew

vsto spit

Informal

1 6.5

To spit out saliva, phlegm, or mucus from your mouth

is similar but describes a quicker or less violent action

to spit up

vsto spit

1 4.1

To push food, milk, or phlegm out of the mouth

is about forcing substances out of the mouth without focusing on origin

to spue

vsto spit

NSFW

1 9.9

To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit

is used mainly for saliva or phlegm rather than vomiting

to gob

vsto spit

9.9

To spit forcefully in a rude way

is used more generally and not necessarily rude or insulting

to ptyalize

vsto spit

Archaic

9.9

To spit out saliva or phlegm

is the common everyday term and often implies a quick aggressive action

Antonyms

to ingest

68 3.6

To eat or drink something so it goes into your body

Idioms

a spit in the ocean

Informal

1 9.1

A very small amount with little effect on a big problem

to spit nails

Slang

1 9.9

To feel very angry and show it

to chew the meat and spit out the bones

Informal

8.0

Keep the useful parts and ignore the rest

to throw a dummy spit

9.9

Have a childish angry outburst when you do not get your way

to spit in someone's face

Offensive

8.2

Act in a way that shows strong disrespect and insults someone

Phrasal Verbs

to spit out

94 2.3

To push food or drink out of your mouth

to spit out

Informal

15 4.4

To say words quickly and angrily to show dislike

to spit up

1 4.1

To push food, milk, or phlegm out of the mouth

to spit poison

Informal

7.9

Say very angry, hurtful things to someone to hurt them

to spit up

Informal

7.7

To give something, often money, because others make you do it

Compounds

spit and polish

Informal

1 7.0

Careful cleaning and neat order, especially in the military

spit curl

Archaic

1 8.4

A small lock of hair styled flat on the forehead or cheek

spit-and-sawdust pub

Archaic

9.1

A simple, old pub where local people drink cheap drinks

How Forceful

to expectorate

Specialized

1 9.9

to spit

315 1.0

to hawk

Informal

4 8.9

to dribble

15 2.8

to drool

49 2.1

Surface Forms

spit infinitive

spitting present participle

spits third person singular

spat past

spat past participle

Etymology

Spit (to force saliva out) comes from a very old idea of 'forcing out' something from the mouth. So to spit is to push saliva or other things out quickly.