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spitting image

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spitting image
n.
A perfect likeness or counterpart.

[Probably from alteration of spitten, dialectal past participle of spit, the close resemblance of one person to another being likened in folk sayings to the former person having been spat out of the latter's mouth; see spit1.]

spitting image
Noun
Informal a person who looks very like someone else [from spit likeness]
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Noun1.spitting image - a perfect likeness or counterpart
alikeness, likeness, similitude - similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness"

spitting image
noun double, lookalike, (dead) ringer (slang) picture, spit (informal), chiefly Brit. clone, replica, likeness, living image, spit and image (informal)


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