different between spit vs drizzle

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /sp?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spit? (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Danish spid, Dutch spit, German Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).

The verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)).

Noun

spit (plural spits)

1. A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.

   Synonym: broach
2. A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.

Derived terms

• Spithead (sense 2)

Translations

Verb

spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)

1. (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
2. (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.

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Etymology 2

The verb is from Middle English sp??ten, spete (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English sp?tan (“to spit; to squirt”); or from Middle English spit, spitte, spitten (“to spit (blood, phlegm, saliva, venom, etc.); of a fire: to emit sparks”), from Old English spittan, spyttan (“to spit”), both from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)?w, *spy?, ultimately imitative; compare Middle English spitelen (“to spit out, expectorate”) and English spew. The English word is cognate with Danish spytte (“to spit”), North Frisian spütte, Norwegian spytte (“to spit”), Swedish spotta (“to spit”), Old Norse spýta (Faroese spýta (“to spit”), Icelandic spýta (“to spit”)).

The noun is derived from the verb; compare Danish spyt (“spit”), Middle English spit, spytte (“saliva, spittle, sputum”), spet (“saliva, spittle”), sp??tel (“saliva, spittle”), North Frisian spiit.

Verb

spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spat or spit)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.

   Synonym: expectorate
2. (transitive, intransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To utter (something) violently.
4. (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
5. (intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.

Usage notes

The past tense and past participle spit is an older form, but remains the more common form used by speakers in North America, and is also used often enough by speakers of British and Commonwealth English to be listed as an alternative form by the Collins English Dictionary and Oxford Dictionaries. A non-standard past participle form is spitten.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spit (countable and uncountable, plural spits)

1. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.

   Synonyms: expectoration, spittle
2. (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
3. A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image)
4. (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

The noun is from Middle Dutch speet, spit, Middle Low German spêdt, spit (Low German spit); the word is cognate with Dutch spit, North Frisian spatt, spet, West Frisian spit.

The verb is from Middle English spitten (“to dig”), from Old English spittan (“to dig with a spade”), possibly from spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”); see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch spetten, spitten (modern Dutch spitten), Middle Low German speten, spitten (Low German spitten), North Frisian spat, West Frisian spitte.

Noun

spit (plural spits)

1. The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
2. The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.

Translations

Verb

spit (third-person singular simple present spits, present participle spitting, simple past and past participle spitted)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.
3. (intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.

   Synonym: delve

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References

Further reading

• rotisserie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• spit (landform) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• spitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• spit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• James Orchard Halliwell (1847) , “SPIT”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 785, column 1: “SPIT. (1) The depth a spade goes in digging, about a foot.”

Anagrams

• ISTP, PITs, PTIs, TIPS, pist, pits, sipt, stip, tips

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch spit. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?t/
• Hyphenation: spit
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

spit n (plural spitten or speten, diminutive spitje n or speetje n)

1. A skewer.

   Synonyms: braadspit, vleesspies, vleesspit

Related terms

• spies
• spits
• spitten

Ternate

Etymology

From English speed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spit]

Noun

spit

1. speedboat, motorboat

References

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English speed.

Noun

spit

1. speed

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi?t/

  Rhymes: -í?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German sp?t. Compare Old Norse spé, Norwegian spit, English spite, Dutch spijt. See also spej.

Noun

spit m

1. Spite, defiance.

   Han åt int na i spit’n

   In defiance he ate nothing.

Derived terms

• spitol
• spituv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse *spítr, from Proto-Germanic *spihtiz. Cognate with Old Norse spéttr, spætr, from *spihtaz, *spehtaz. Compare riit from *rihtijan? and witer from *wihtiz.

Noun

spit m

1. (in compounds) Woodpecker.

Derived terms

• hakkspit
• kackspit

Etymology 3

Noun

spit m

1. Capacity.

Declension

Related terms

• spiit

English

Etymology

Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English dr?osan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??z.l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l
• Hyphenation: driz?zle

Verb

drizzle (third-person singular simple present drizzles, present participle drizzling, simple past and past participle drizzled)

1. (impersonal) To rain lightly.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London, Januarye, Aegloga prima,^[1]

     And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,

     As on your boughes the ysicles depend.

   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 5,^[2]

     When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;

     But for the sunset of my brother’s son

     It rains downright.

3. (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.

4. (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.

5. (slang) To urinate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.

Translations

Noun

drizzle (countable and uncountable, plural drizzles)

1. Light rain.
2. (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.

3. (slang) Water.

4. (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
   • April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian

     Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.

Derived terms

• drizzly
• drizzler

Translations

Anagrams

• rizzled