The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spit \Spit\, v. i.
To throw out saliva from the mouth.
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To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
It had been spitting with rain.
--Dickens.To spit on or To spit upon, to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. ``Spitting upon all antiquity.''
--South.
Usage examples of "to spit upon".
Ashenhold was empty, half of its territory vanished, drowned in the Bale-Bog, the name one to spit upon.
The name of Lysippus the Calysian had been one to spit upon in Kyros's household, and in a great many others, of all ranks and classes.
Many people take pity on him and give him something, but every contribution so greatly chastens him that by the final paragraph of Dick's novel, he is only a ghost drifting across the landscape, his substance utterly depleted by the charity of people whom he expected to spit upon and revile him.
New Moon turned her face to spit upon the ground and then slowly turned her gaze back to her enemy.