spit
要点吐く、つばを吐く
意味
- 〈つば・食べ物など〉を吐く,吐き出す《+out+名,+名+out》
- (…に)〈悪口など〉を吐き出すように言う《+out+名+at+名》
- (…に向かって)つばを吐く《+at(in,into,on,upon)+名》
- つば(saliva)
- (焼き肉用の)くし,焼きぐし
- (細長く海に突き出た)出州(です),砂州(さす);みさき
- 〈肉など〉を焼きぐしに刺す
例文
In Singapore, it is a crime to spit on the ground.
シンガポールでは、地面に唾を吐くことは犯罪です。
Spit it out now. You're going to swallow it.
すぐに吐き出しなさい。飲み込んじゃうでしょ。
Spitting on streets is a crime in Singapore.
シンガポールでは道路に唾を吐くのは犯罪です。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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 *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *speyd-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).