Meanings
nouncuspidor (plural cuspidors)
plural cuspidors
- USA spittoon.
Despite the dirty ceiling and the cigarette butts swelling in the cuspidor, they're civilised.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 5281 more example
Clif Clawson and he lived in a large room with flowered wall-paper, piles of filthy clothes, iron beds, and cuspidors.
1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 5, in Arrowsmith, page 40
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Origin
- Portuguesecuspidor
- Portuguesecuspidor
- Englishcuspidor
Borrowed from Portuguese cuspidor (“spitter”).
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