spitter

¹ American  

[spit-er] / ˈspɪt ər /

noun

1. a person or thing that spits. spit.

2. Baseball. spitball.

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spitter ² American  

[spit-er] / ˈspɪt ər /

noun

1. brocket.

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Etymology

Origin of spitter¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; spit ¹, -er ¹

Origin of spitter²

First recorded in 1555–65; spit ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

And it didn’t help that the United States was a nation of spitters, as a disgusted Charles Dickens described it.

From Washington Post

An African American man stepped forward, saying he saw the whole thing and pointing cops to the spitter just as he was trying to sidle away in the crowd.

From Seattle Times

A new study suggests that over the course of several million years, all three groups of spitters independently tailored the chemistry of their toxins in the same way to cause pain to a would-be predator.

From Science Magazine

Masks were not mandated, but Copeland was ruthless about the need to “eliminate the sneezers, coughers and spitters” from the audience.

From New York Times

Municipal cleaners fed up with cleaning the orange stains of betel nuts, which are chewed and then spat out, realised that painting images of gods on walls made spitters think twice.

From The Guardian