spitter

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From spit (“rod; skewer”) +‎ -er.

• spittard

spitter (plural spitters)

1. One who puts meat on a spit.
2. A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp.

   Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, pricket

From spit (verb) +‎ -er.

spitter (plural spitters)

2. Someone who spits.

   Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.

   • 2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107:

     After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.

   2. (vulgar) Someone who spits out semen during oral sex.

      Coordinate term: swallower

3. (hip-hop slang) Rapper, emcee.
   • 2010, Killah Priest, “Priest History”, in The 3 Day Theory‎^[1]:

     On the stage with the RZA to the Gravediggaz
     GZA used to say I was his favorite spitter

   • 2012, Joey Badass featuring Capital Steez, “Killuminati”, in 1999‎^[2]:

     What you tryna be Vito? Well there's rules to this shit
     Don't get clapped, y'all ain't real spitters, y'all lips chapped

5. (herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.
6. A small shower (of rain), a spatter.
   • 1916, The Wireless Age, page 19:

     A zigzag of lightning fretted the eastern horizon in a brilliant greenish flash, sharply outlining the sea-line; and, as a solemn, hollow, distant peal reverberated, a spitter of rain fell. There was not a breath of wind, and the whack-whacking and spits of flame from the warships came threatening over the darkening sea.

   • 2025 March 25, Jade Linwood, Beast, Rebellion Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

     [A] spitter of rain hit the leaves, increasing to a drenching rush.

8. (baseball) Synonym of spitball.

   Coach says no throwing any spitters.

10. An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed.

    with a spitter in the console of his Camaro

• spitters are quitters (vulgar)

• Pitters, pitters, tipster