spittoon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A receptacle for spit (saliva); especially, one used by people using chewing tobacco or snuff.

   In the only arm-chair which the apartment boasted—one of the legs of which was shorter than the other three, and to remedy that defect was ingeniously stuck into an iron spittoon—sat the young man Mr. Pascoe had come to visit, very unlike, it must be confessed, any "portraits of a gentleman" one ever saw in the exhibition of the Royal Academy.

From spit + -oon.

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