Meanings (ES + gloss)
asador • espedo • espeto • espetón • espiche • espiedo • fierro • picudo • spiedo
A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
The spits upon which the double sections of fish are transfixed are iron rods about 7 feet long, provided with an L-shaped handle at one end, so that when hung on a bracket at eith…
When the joint to be roasted is thicker at one end than the other, place the spit slanting, so that the whole time the thickest part is nearest the fire, and also the thinnest by t…
barra
A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
Or perhaps he may see a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit of shingle, against the blue sea, [...]
Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a san…
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escupida
Saliva, especially when expectorated.
Sometimes your body doesn't make as much spit as it needs. When you sleep, your salivary glands take a bit of a snooze too. You're still making spit, but not as much. This is why y…
There was spit all over the washbasin.
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espetar
To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
Fried or roast mice, spitted on sticks like kebabs, are often offered for sale by the roadside.
to spit a loin of veal
Phrases
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
escupir
To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
When the mighty duststorm, silent and terrifying, first engulfed her, she thought she would choke. Spitting dust from her dry lips, she ran indoors to protect the children, and fou…
Yes there were times, I'm sure you knew/When I bit off more than I could chew/But through it all, when there was doubt/I ate it up and spit it out.
Phrases
Equatorial spitting cobrachew the meat and spit out the boneschew up and spit outchew-and-spitnot know whether to spit or go blindspit bloodspit boxspit bucketspit chipsspit factsspit feathersspit firespit in someone's facespit in the oceanspit in the windspit into the windspit it outspit nailsspit onspit outspit straight factsspit tacksspit the dummyspit upspit venomspit-poisonspitterspitting chipsspitting cobraspitting distancespitting imagespitting spiderswap spittrust someone as far as one can spittrust someone as far as one could spit