SPITTING IMAGE

Meaning of SPITTING IMAGE in English

■ noun ( the ~ of ) informal the exact double of.

Origin

C19: orig. as the spit of or the spit and image of ; perh. from the idea of a person apparently being formed from the spit of another, so great is the similarity between them.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

SPITTING IMAGE — noun Etymology: alteration of spit and image Date: 1887 image 3b
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SPITTING IMAGE — ˈspit ə n- sometimes -id.]iŋ- or -it] or ]ēŋ-\ noun Etymology: alteration (influenced by spitting, present participle of spit ) …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SPITTING IMAGE — Informal. See spit 1 (def. 13). [ 1925-30; from the phrase spit and image (see SPIT 1 ) by confusion …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SPITTING IMAGE — identical copy, similar to a wild image
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SPITTING IMAGE — Etymology: alteration of spit and image Date: 1887 : image 3b
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SPITTING IMAGE — Function: noun Etymology: alteration of spit and image Date: 1887 : IMAGE 3B
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SPITTING IMAGE — [spitting image] n [alter. of spit and image] (1901): image 3b
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SPITTING IMAGE — noun • IDIOMS - be the spitting image of sb •• WORD ORIGIN late 19th cent.: originally as the spit …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SPITTING IMAGE — Spitting Image BrE AmE a humorous British television programme of the 1980s and early 1990s in which rubber ↑ puppet …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SPITTING IMAGE — ˌspitting ˈimage BrE AmE noun be the spitting image of somebody to look exactly like someone else
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SPITTING IMAGE — see spit
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SPITTING IMAGE — see spit
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SPITTING IMAGE — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man. ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SPITTING IMAGE — Synonyms and related words : Doppelganger, actual thing, carbon copy, companion, copy, dead ringer, ditto, double, duplicate, effigy, equivalent, exact …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SPITTING IMAGE — = spit and image
Slang English vocab
SPITTING IMAGE — Function: noun Synonyms: IMAGE 1, double, picture, portrait, ringer, simulacrum, spit Related Words: mirror image
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
SPITTING IMAGE — noun Synonyms: image 1, double, picture, portrait, ringer, simulacrum, spit Related Word: mirror image
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
SPITTING IMAGE — a British comedy television series (1984–96) that used large rubber models to make fun of famous people (such as politicians, …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
SPITTING IMAGE — Вылитый портрет (сатирическая телевизионная программа злободневного характера, в кот. государственные деятели, члены королевского семейства (Royal Family) и т.п. изображены в …
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
SPITTING IMAGE — exact resemblance He is a spitting image of his father.
English Idioms vocab
SPITTING IMAGE — See the spitting image
English Idioms vocabulary
SPITTING IMAGE — разг. вылитый портрет, 'копия' (разговорное) вылитый портрет; разительное сходство
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SPITTING IMAGE — разг. вылитый портрет; разительное сходство
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SPITTING IMAGE — вылитый портрет, 'копия'
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SPITTING IMAGE — разг. вылитый портрет; разительное сходство
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
SPITTING IMAGE — разг. вылитый портрет; разительное сходство
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SPITTING IMAGE — вылитый портрет
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
SPITTING IMAGE — вылитый портрет
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
SPITTING IMAGE — разг. вылитый портрет, "копия" She is her mother's spitting image. — Она вылитый портрет своей матери. Your spitting image he …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
SPITTING IMAGE — разг. вылитый портрет, "копия" She is her mother's spitting image. — Она вылитый портрет своей матери. Your spitting image he was. — Он …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
SPITTING IMAGE — _собир. вылитый портрет, 'копия'
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
SPITTING IMAGE — собир. вылитый портрет, 'копия'
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
SPITTING IMAGE — вылитый портрет, 'копия'
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
SPITTING IMAGE — _n. _разг. вылитый портрет, "копия"
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
SPITTING IMAGE — (n.phr.) точная копия
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь сленга, жаргона, русских имен
SPITTING IMAGE — точная копия; один к одному
Англо-Русский словарь английских идиом
SPITTING IMAGE — "Вылитый портрет" (сатирическая телевизионная программа злободневного характера, в кот. государственные деятели, члены королевского семейства [Royal Family] и т.п. изображены в …
Великобритания - Лингвострановедческий словарь
SPITTING IMAGE — точная копия; один к одному
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
SPITTING IMAGE — (n.phr.) точная копия
English Russian slang dictionary
SPITTING IMAGE — разг. вылитый портрет, 'копия' (разговорное) вылитый портрет; разительное сходство
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
IMAGE — I. ˈimij, -mēj noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, short for imagene, from Latin imagin-, imago; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SPITTING — noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from gerund of spitten to spit : spit
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SPITTING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spit
Английский словарь Webster
SPITTING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spit
Английский словарь Webster
SPITTING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Spit
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SPITTING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Spit
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
IMAGE — — imageable , adj. — imager , n. /im"ij/ , n. , v. , imaged, imaging . n. 1. a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SPITTING — adj. that spits, that ejects saliva from the mouth
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SPITTING — n. act of expelling saliva from the mouth, expectorating
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
IMAGE — I. ˈi-mij noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, short for imagene, from Latin imagin-, imago; perhaps akin to Latin imitari …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SPITTING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of spit. 2. spitting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of spit.
Webster English vocab
IMAGE — noun show; appearance; cast. 2. image ·noun hence: the likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. 3. …
Webster English vocab
IMAGE — / ˈɪmɪdʒ; NAmE / noun 1. [ C , U ] the impression that a person, an organization or a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
IMAGE — im ‧ age S2 W1 AC /ˈɪmɪdʒ/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
IMAGE — ( images) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you have an …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
IMAGE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
IMAGE — Synonyms and related words : Doppelganger, Vorstellung, abstract, abstraction, adumbrate, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, allusion, ally, altarpiece, alter …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SPITTING — Talking
Slang English vocab
SPITTING — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
SPITTING — adj. Spitting is used with these nouns: ↑ image
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
IMAGE — noun 1 impression of sb/sth given to the public ADJECTIVE ▪ good , positive ▪ negative ▪ tarnished ▪ The …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SPITTING — • ↑ be the spitting image of
Longman Activator English vocab
IMAGE — n. 25B6; noun an image of the Madonna : LIKENESS, resemblance; depiction, portrayal, representation; statue, statuette, sculpture, bust, effigy; painting, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
IMAGE — 1. < data , graphics > Data representing a two-dimensional scene. A digital image is composed of pixels arranged in …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary

Concise Oxford English vocab

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