If you don't blow your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.
Source: tatoeba (10006104)
Spittoon
//spɪˈtuːn//
Synonyms for "spittoon" (8 found)
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1 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
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3 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 44 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- плюва́лник noun (receptacle for spit)
Catalan
1 entries- escopidora noun (receptacle for spit)
Chinese
1 entries- 痰壺 /痰壶 noun (receptacle for spit)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 痰盂罐 noun (receptacle for spit)
- 痰罐 noun (receptacle for spit)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 唾壺 /唾壶 noun (receptacle for spit)
- 痰桶 noun (receptacle for spit)
- 痰盂 noun (receptacle for spit)
- 痰盒 noun (receptacle for spit)
Czech
1 entries- plivátko noun (receptacle for spit)
Danish
1 entries- spyttebakke noun (receptacle for spit)
Dutch
1 entries- kwispedoor noun (receptacle for spit)
Esperanto
1 entries- kraĉujo noun (receptacle for spit)
Estonian
1 entries- süljekauss noun (receptacle for spit)
Finnish
1 entries- sylkykuppi noun (receptacle for spit)
French
1 entries- crachoir noun (receptacle for spit)
German
1 entries- Spucknapf noun (receptacle for spit)
Greek
1 entries- πτυελοδοχείο noun (receptacle for spit)
Gujarati
2 entries- થૂંકદાની noun (receptacle for spit)
- પિકદાની noun (receptacle for spit)
Icelandic
1 entries- hrákadallur noun (receptacle for spit)
Indonesian
1 entries- tempolong noun (receptacle for spit)
Irish
1 entries- seileadán noun (receptacle for spit)
Italian
1 entries- sputacchiera noun (receptacle for spit)
Japanese
4 entries- たんつぼ noun (receptacle for spit)
- 唾壺 noun (receptacle for spit)
- 痰壷 noun (receptacle for spit)
- 痰壺 noun (receptacle for spit)
Kannada
1 entries- ಡವಕೆ noun (receptacle for spit)
Khmer
1 entries- កន្ថោរ noun (receptacle for spit)
Kumyk
1 entries- жем noun (receptacle for spit)
Macedonian
2 entries- плувалник noun (receptacle for spit)
- плукалник noun (receptacle for spit)
Malay
2 entries- ketur noun (receptacle for spit)
- tempolong noun (receptacle for spit)
Malayalam
1 entries- തുപ്പൽപാത്രം noun (receptacle for spit)
Māori
1 entries- paepae hūare noun (receptacle for spit)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- توكوروك حقهسی noun (receptacle for spit)
Persian
1 entries- خیودان noun (receptacle for spit)
Polish
1 entries- spluwaczka noun (receptacle for spit)
Portuguese
3 entries- cuspideira noun (receptacle for spit)
- cuspidor noun (receptacle for spit)
- escarradeira noun (receptacle for spit)
Russian
2 entries- плева́льница noun (receptacle for spit)
- плева́тельница noun (receptacle for spit)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pljuvaonica noun (receptacle for spit)
- pljuvačnica noun (receptacle for spit)
- пљуваоница noun (receptacle for spit)
- пљувачница noun (receptacle for spit)
Spanish
1 entries- escupidera noun (receptacle for spit)
Sundanese
1 entries- ᮒᮙ᮪ᮕᮧᮜᮧᮀ noun (receptacle for spit)
Swedish
2 entries- spottkopp noun (receptacle for spit)
- spottlåda noun (receptacle for spit)
Tagalog
2 entries- duraan noun (receptacle for spit)
- luraan noun (receptacle for spit)
Telugu
1 entries- తమ్మతొట్టి noun (receptacle for spit)
Tulu
1 entries- ಪಡ್ಯ noun (receptacle for spit)
Turkish
1 entries- tükürük hokkası noun (receptacle for spit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- плювальниця noun (receptacle for spit)
Urdu
3 entries- اُگالدان noun (receptacle for spit)
- تھوک دان noun (receptacle for spit)
- پِیْک دان noun (receptacle for spit)
Welsh
1 entries- poerlestr noun (receptacle for spit)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 痰瓶 noun (receptacle for spit)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Jim Poland—for such was the big man's name—growled and spat reflectively into a spittoon.
Source: tatoeba (11566489)
In the only arm-chair which the apartment boasted—one of the legs of which was shorter than the other three, and to remedy that defect was ingeniously stuck into an iron spittoon—sat the young man Mr. Pascoe had come to visit, very unlike, it must be confessed, any "portraits of a gentleman" one ever saw in the exhibition of the Royal Academy.
Source: wiktionary
For use in public institutions, in corridors and grounds, I would recommend an elevated spittoon, which has numerous advantages over the ordinary spittoon placed on the floor.
Source: wiktionary
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