吐

to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances)

to vomit / to throw up

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu

earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

style of conversation

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克貝利·芬歷險記|哈克贝利·芬历险记[Ha1 ke4 bei4 li4 · Fen1 Li4 xian3 Ji4]

diction / enunciation / to pronounce the words correctly (in opera)

no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / no good words are to be expected from a scoundrel

(finance) profit-taking

Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang

to stop eating and spit out

after wine, spit out the truth / in vino veritas

apatosaurus / former name: brontosaurus / also called 雷龍|雷龙[lei2 long2]

to regurgitate / (fig.) (of a stock market) to give up (gains)

lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel