spitting far from one
spitting far from one, prov. of a ‘big bug’, Sch. Luc. Nav. 15, Apol. 7.
The corpus record
μακρο-πτύστης
makroptustes · ὁ
spitting far from one
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.