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prettygoodwordcuspidor (KUHS-pi-dawr) - n., a spittoon.
Or spitoon, if you will -- a receptacle for spit, especially from chewing tobacco. It is, actually the older word for it, spittoon having been coined around 1823 while cuspidor was borrowed around 1735 from Portuguese cuspidouro, place for spitting, from cuspir, to spit, from Latin conspuere, from com-, here an intensifier + spuere, to spit -- so a cognate of spew.
---L.
Or spitoon, if you will -- a receptacle for spit, especially from chewing tobacco. It is, actually the older word for it, spittoon having been coined around 1823 while cuspidor was borrowed around 1735 from Portuguese cuspidouro, place for spitting, from cuspir, to spit, from Latin conspuere, from com-, here an intensifier + spuere, to spit -- so a cognate of spew.
---L.
