cuspidor
noun
cuspidor is a noun meaning “A spittoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-U-S-P-I-D-O-R, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cuspidor is cuspidors.
What does cuspidor mean?
noun
- 1
USA spittoon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cuspidor?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cuspidor.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cuspidor
- cuspidors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cuspidor?
Cuspidor appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cuspidor come from?
Borrowed from Portuguese cuspidor (“spitter”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).