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spitless

adj

Etymology

From spit + -less.

  1. inherited from *sp(y)ēw✻
  2. inherited from spittan
  3. inherited from spit
  4. inherited from spǣtan — “to spit; to squirt”
  5. inherited from speten
  6. suffixed as spitless — “spit + less”

Definitions

  1. Without spit or spitting.

    • Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts

  2. Greatly frightened.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spitless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA