spit

spit
spit
A n
1 (saliva) (in mouth) salive f ; (on ground) crachat m ;
2 (expectoration) ‘I hate you’ he said with a spit ‘je te déteste’ dit-il en crachant ; to give a spit cracher ;
3 Culin broche f ; cooked on a spit rôti à la broche ; rotating spit tournebroche m ;
4 Geol flèche f ;
5 GB (spade depth) two spits deep à deux fers de profondeur.
B vtr (p prés -tt-, prét, pp spat)
1 lit [person] cracher [blood, food] (into dans ; onto sur) ;
2 fig [volcano] cracher [lava] ; [pan] projeter [oil] ;
3 (utter) proférer [oath, venom] (at en direction de).
C vi (p prés -tt-, prét, pp spat)
1 lit [cat, person] cracher (at, on sur ; into dans ; out of de) ; to spit in sb's face lit, fig cracher à la figure de qn ;
2 (be angry) to spit with écumer de [rage, anger] ;
3 (crackle) [oil, sausage] grésiller ; [logs, fire] crépiter.
D v impers (p prés -tt-, prét, pp spat) it's spitting (with rain) il bruine.
Idioms
spit and polish huile f de coude ; to be the (dead) spit of sb être le portrait tout craché de qn.
Phrasal verbs
■ spit out :
▶ spit [sth] out, spit out [sth] lit cracher [blood, drink] (into dans ; onto sur) ; fig proférer [phrase, word] ; spit it out ○ ! crache le morceau ○ !
■ spit up :
▶ spit [sth] up, spit up [sth] [patient] cracher [blood] ; US [baby] vomir [milk, food].

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