Definitions for cuspidor

cuspidor cus·pi·dor

Spelling: [kuhs-pi-dawr]
IPA: /ˈkʌs pɪˌdɔr/

Cuspidor is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 335 anagrams from letters in cuspidor (cdioprsu).

Definitions for cuspidor

noun

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

Origin of cuspidor

1770-80; Portuguese: literally, spitter, equivalent to cusp(ir) to spit (≪ Latin conspuere to cover with spit; con- con- + spuere to spit

Examples for cuspidor

Spitting on the floor was breaking a castiron rule, yet not a cuspidor was provided for that use.

His clothes were seedy, and his remarks punctuated by amber-colored shots at the cuspidor.

Corrigan bit his cigar in two, and slowly spat that which was left in his mouth into a cuspidor.

Or else they'll pour half of it into the cuspidor when you're not looking.

Lew Perkins sat in the corner on a shaky old apple barrel and brushed back his long mustaches to spit at the cuspidor—and miss it.

Upon the floor, six feet behind his antagonist, was a cuspidor with jagged edges.

Again the magistrate spat into the cuspidor between his feet.

Now it was a cuspidor, now a fire-shovel for the little stove, now a China shaving mug.

The squire nodded and spat into the cuspidor between his feet.

Without a word the Sheriff dropped the coins into the cuspidor.

Word Value for cuspidor
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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