spittoon

A sweet wine finished us off, well it might have done had I not been availing of the spitoon.

There are boundary wars: proprietors produce tape-measures to justify the position of a spitoon on a rival's manhole.

"It's where my father Fred had his first job when he was just 15, as the 'Spitoon boy', and where I went in 1964 when I first started at Tyne Tees.

The cramped quarters of the cross-Channel steamer, where mistress and maid are sick by turn in the same spitoon, and French danseuses mingle with innocent girls sent out to train as governesses, launch that disconcerting process by which English class- and gender-markers start to dissolve, and by the time the English reach Boulogne, en route for Paris, their uncertainty drives them to steer clear of French food, drink, and politics and take lodgings within the safety of the British colony.

Liverpool have a fine and deserved name in football which is in danger of being tarnished by a man who needs a spitoon rather than a football.

The female characters' ornate saris in bright reds and yellows brighten a simple, prop-based set (spitoon, table, bed) designed by Melly Still.

IT'S not too often there's a spitoon in the middle of the Mirror newsroom, then again it's unusual to have John Torode there too.

It was all very well me wanting tradition but the days of the spitoon are over etc, etc, he droned.

When I was a trainee I missed the spitoon and ended up soaking the senior taster's trousers.

But it seems churlish to lob a mouthful of 50-year-old Very Old Rare Sherry (V.O.R.S as they call it in the trade) into a spitoon bucket so I sniff, sip and sip again.