Spittoon

Definition

spittoon /spÇ'tu:n / n (esp formerly) ေထြးခံ။ (ေရွး) ျပတို႔။

Examples

1. ‘Men and women may be employed to carry spittoons to enable paan chewers to spit in them.’
2. ‘Over a burger the size of Birmingham we get talking to local resident
3. Gary Fish
4. who recalls his boyhood at The Sport emptying the cowboy's spittoons for a nickel.’
5. ‘Suffice it to say it had something to do with spittoons
6. and I failed to enter.’
7. ‘It's the only place in Britain I've ever seen spittoons.’
8. ‘He turned his head to the opposite wall and spat a stream of tobacco juice toward a spittoon.’
9. ‘To the immediate left was a long
10. paneled bar with a rusty foot rail and spittoons lining the bottom.’
11. ‘In more elegant surroundings
12. you spit into a spittoon
13. usually a simple container like a large bowl (one per taster) or an ice bucket that two or three tasters share.’
14. ‘When he could see again
15. Jackson spat into the brass spittoon by his side.’
16. ‘People expect spittoons and grotty seating.’
17. ‘I can feel a burgeoning market for spittoons just around the corner.’
18. ‘Keyboards are banned as harmful and can be found in museums
19. next to punch cards and spittoons.’
20. ‘Out went the spittoons and in came the chandeliers.’
21. ‘Littering and spitting are regulated by advising awareness against them and by conveniently yet discreetly located garbage bins and spittoons
22. efficiently maintained by the civic authorities.’
23. ‘Spitting on the deck might mean carrying a spittoon around; dirty clothing could mean a sailor was condemned to carry it for a certain time lashed to an oar.’
24. ‘Meukow's foul
25. gilded
26. sour vanilla
27. mawkish chocolate and rotting tropical fruit salad-spiked Black Panther bottle was so feral that I only just reached the spittoon in time.’
28. ‘In a perfect world
29. she would then have directed a stream of blackened tobacco spit dead into the centre of a freshly-cleaned spittoon
30. making a brassy clanging noise.’
31. ‘The little man spat and the spittle ran down the side of the spittoon where he'd missed.’
32. ‘Imagine thinking the lack of a spittoon entitles you to spit on the stairs repeatedly and to be disdainful of the poor old woman who has had to clean it up for being insufficiently happy to see you!’
33. ‘My onion soup gratinée was thick as lava and arrived in a bowl the size of a small spittoon.’
34. ‘Dinesh Sardar wants waste-bins and spittoons to be set up wherever possible to reduce littering and spitting.’