cuspidor
Portuguese, noun/kus.piˈdoʁ/
cuspidor is spelled C-U-S-P-I-D-O-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 109,086th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuspidor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “spitter (someone who spits)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contentor que acumula cuspida”.
What does cuspidor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespitter (someone who spits)
- 2
masculinespittoon (receptacle for spit)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. contentor que acumula cuspida
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cuspidor
- cuspidores plural
- cuspidora feminine
- cuspidoras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuspidor?
- Brazil /kus.piˈdoʁ/
- Brazil [kus.piˈdoh]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cuspidor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cuspidor in Portuguese?
cuspidor appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).