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English

A receptacle for spit (saliva); especially, one used by people using chewing tobacco or snuff.
Synonyms: cuspidor, goboon, pigdan, spitbox, spit bucket, spit-cup

Hyponym: spitter
- 1835, James Payn, From Exile‎, page 142:
  In the only arm-chair which the apartment boasted—one of the legs of which was shorter than the other three, and to remedy that defect was ingeniously stuck into an iron spittoon—sat the young man Mr. Pascoe had come to visit, very unlike, it must be confessed, any "portraits of a gentleman" one ever saw in the exhibition of the Royal Academy.
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- 1903, S. A. Knopf, “A practical talk to the nurses of tuberculous patients”, in The American Journal of Nursing‎, volume 3, page 444:
  For use in public institutions, in corridors and grounds, I would recommend an elevated spittoon, which has numerous advantages over the ordinary spittoon placed on the floor.
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- 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
  These had once been divided meticulously between the three classes and were still embellished by lengthy extracts from the Decrée of 1902 ("passengers must not spit except into the spittoons provided on pain of..."—but, alas, the spittoons are no more).
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- 2003, Marie Jakober, Only Call Us Faithful: A Novel of the Union Underground‎, page 194:
  They had made good time, Streight thought, considering what they were using: a chisel, a wooden spittoon to put the dirt in, a clothesline to pull the spittoon back and forth, a candle for the digger, and the rubber blanket for fanning air.
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Translations

receptacle for spit

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Bulgarian: плюва́лник m (pljuválnik)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#SPITTOON
Catalan: escopidora fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#SPITTOON
Chinese:
Cantonese: 痰罐 (taam⁴ gun³)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#SPITTOON, 痰盂罐 (taam⁴ jyu⁴ gun³)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#SPITTOON

Hokkien: 痰壺 / 痰壶 (zh-min-nan) (thâm-ô͘)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#SPITTOON

Mandarin: 痰盂 (zh) (tányú)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#SPITTOON, 痰桶 (zh) (tántǒng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#SPITTOON, 唾壺 / 唾壶 (zh) (tuòhú)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#SPITTOON, 痰罐 (zh) (tánguàn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#SPITTOON, 痰盒 (zh) (tánhé)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#SPITTOON

Wu: 痰瓶Category:Terms with Wu translations#SPITTOON
Czech: plivátko nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#SPITTOON
Danish: spyttebakke cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#SPITTOON
Dutch: kwispedoor (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#SPITTOON
Esperanto: kraĉujoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#SPITTOON
Estonian: süljekaussCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#SPITTOON
Finnish: sylkykuppi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#SPITTOON
French: crachoir (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#SPITTOON
German: Spucknapf (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#SPITTOON
Greek: πτυελοδοχείο (el) n (ptyelodocheío)Category:Terms with Greek translations#SPITTOON
Gujarati: થૂંકદાની (thū̃kdānī)Category:Terms with Gujarati translations#SPITTOON, પિકદાની (pikdānī)Category:Terms with Gujarati translations#SPITTOON
Icelandic: hrákadallur mCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#SPITTOON
Indonesian: tempolong (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#SPITTOON
Irish: seileadán mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#SPITTOON
Italian: sputacchiera fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#SPITTOON
Japanese: たんつぼ (tantsubo)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#SPITTOON, 痰壺 (たんつぼ, tantsubo)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#SPITTOON, 痰壷 (たんつぼ, tantsubo)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#SPITTOON, 唾壺 (dako)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#SPITTOON
Kannada: ಡವಕೆ (kn) (ḍavake)Category:Terms with Kannada translations#SPITTOON
Khmer: កន្ថោរ (km) (kon thoa)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#SPITTOON
Kumyk: жем (jem)Category:Terms with Kumyk translations#SPITTOON
Macedonian: плукалник m (plukalnik)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#SPITTOON, плувалник m (pluvalnik)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#SPITTOON
Malay: keturCategory:Terms with Malay translations#SPITTOON, tempolong (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#SPITTOON
Malayalam: തുപ്പൽപാത്രം (tuppalpātraṁ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#SPITTOON
Māori: paepae hūareCategory:Terms with Māori translations#SPITTOON
Persian: خیودان (xayudân)Category:Terms with Persian translations#SPITTOON
Polish: spluwaczka (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#SPITTOON
Portuguese: cuspidor (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SPITTOON, cuspideira fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SPITTOON, escarradeira (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SPITTOON
Russian: плева́тельница (ru) f (plevátelʹnica)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SPITTOON, плева́льница (ru) f (pleválʹnica)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SPITTOON
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пљувачница fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SPITTOON, пљуваоница fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SPITTOON

Latin: pljuvačnica (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SPITTOON, pljuvaonica (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SPITTOON
Spanish: escupidera (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#SPITTOON
Sundanese: ᮒᮙ᮪ᮕᮧᮜᮧᮀ (tampolong)Category:Terms with Sundanese translations#SPITTOON
Swedish: spottkopp (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#SPITTOON, spottlåda (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#SPITTOON
Tagalog: duraanCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#SPITTOON, luraanCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#SPITTOON
Telugu: తమ్మతొట్టి (te) (tammatoṭṭi)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#SPITTOON
Tulu: ಪಡ್ಯ (paḍya)Category:Terms with Tulu translations#SPITTOON
Turkish: tükürük hokkası (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#SPITTOON
Ottoman Turkish: توكوروك حقه‌سی (tükürük hokkası)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#SPITTOON
Turkmen: tüfdanCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#SPITTOON
Ukrainian: плювальниця f (pljuvalʹnycja)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#SPITTOON
Urdu: اُگالدان m (ugāldān)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#SPITTOON, پِیْک دان m (pīk dān)Category:Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Urdu translations#SPITTOON, تھوک دان m (thūk dān)Category:Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#SPITTOON Category:Terms with Urdu translations#SPITTOON
Welsh: poerlestr mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#SPITTOON

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