Definition of Spitting image

1. Noun. A perfect likeness or counterpart.

Generic synonyms: Alikeness, Likeness, Similitude

Definition of Spitting image

1. Noun. (colloquial) The exact likeness (of someone). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spitting Image

spitsticks
spittal
spittals
spitted
spitten
spitter
spitters
spittest
spitteth
spitting
spitting-cobra
spitting cobra
spitting cobras
spitting distance
spitting distances
spitting image
spitting images
spitting snake
spitting spider
spitting spiders
spittings
spittle
spittle insect
spittlebug
spittlebugs
spittles
spittly
spittoon
spittoons
spitty

Literary usage of Spitting image

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"spitting image was once commonly cited as an error, in dictionaries and ... 1983 I could swear it's the spitting image of the house I saw —David M. Schwartz ..."

2. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1849)
"Though he succeeded in getting them unperceived into his den, his fire-spitting image had no fears for the enraged loser, who was too familiar with such ..."

3. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1858)
"Though he succeeded in getting them unperceived into his den, his fire-spitting image had no fears for the enraged loser, who was too familiar with such ..."

4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1851)
"... his fire-spitting image had DO fears for the enraged loser, who was too familiar with such things to Jread them. This primitive prevalence of robbery ..."

5. The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and by Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (1916)
""spitting image"—A rather inelegant term, implying a striking resemblance, as of a child to a parent; but why "spitting" no one seems to know. ..."

6. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1898)
"A man who looks like another man is said to be " the spitting image of him." Sometimes the figure is carried a little further and to a closer likeness with ..."

7. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"Tiny, malformed, and bandy-legged, it was still the spitting image of him. Had Davey been holding on to it all these years? Tending it in a cage? ..."

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