cuspidor

/kuhs-pi-dawr/US // ˈkʌs pɪˌdɔr //UK // (ˈkʌspɪˌdɔː) //

齿科,齿龈炎,齿形,齿状体

Definitions

n.名词 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.

Jack Bowden rose, spit carefully into the shiny brass cuspidor, placed there to preserve the long-haired red carpet, and began.
His clothes were seedy, and his remarks punctuated by amber-colored shots at the cuspidor.
"Dutch" scratched his head, and, to better conceal his emotion, let go another flyer of saliva at the cuspidor.
Twice after he took his seat at the bade end of the double line he tried for a wooden cuspidor ten feet away.
Roaring Rory spat a huge cud of tobacco into a cuspidor six feet away, the better to express his astonishment.