CUSPIDOR


Meaning of CUSPIDOR in English

/kus"pi dawr'/ , n.

a large bowl, often of metal, serving as a receptacle for spit, esp. from chewing tobacco: in wide use during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

[ 1770-80;

cusp ( ir ) to spit ( conspuere to cover with spit; con- CON- + spuere to SPIT) + -idor -i-torium; see -I-, -TORY 2 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .