Word of the Day - Cuspidor

[debodun]

Cuspidor (noun) - a receptacle for spit; spittoon.

In the days when people chewed tobacco, cuspidors were a common sight in public places.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Working on a dry-heave just thinking about those old disgusting cuspidors!

 

[debodun]

I still remember the brass ones in the post office a long time ago.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I still remember the brass ones in the post office a long time ago.

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I remember seeing pictures of these for sure!

Feel like I'm going to upchuck looking at it! LOL!

 

[debodun]

How would you like the job of cleaning them?

 

[Aunt Marg]

How would you like the job of cleaning them?

I couldn't do it.

 

[RubyK]

Cuspidors lined the floor in the neighborhood bar when I was a kid. My Dad told me what they were and to NEVER touch them!

 

[Sliverfox]

My grandfather's cuspidor was coffee tin placed by his chair.

 

[jujube]

We kids used to sing this little ditty:

Hey, Toreador-a,
Don't spit on the floor-a!
Use the cuspidor-a,
That's what it is for-a.

And my very, very proper great-aunt would say: "Gentlemen who expect to rate with the ladies do not expectorate in public."