Spitting-feathers

i) To be very thirsty, usually for a nice cup of tea (or cuppa).

- A metaphor for the mouth being so dry it feels like it's full of feathers.

ii) To be very angry - foaming at the mouth.

- With the flecks of saliva flying from the mouth (when enraged) being likened to feathers.

i) Aw man, after swigging that salt I'm spitting-feathers. You want a cuppa?

ii) You should have seen him - he was spitting-feathers. I only stroked his beard once.

by Cumberpatch September 6, 2006

Spitting feathers

When someone is angry and Dont know what to do

Danm dude your spitting feathers

by Crack in a glass May 28, 2015

spitting feathers

wish i hadn,t or had done something either good or bad

i was spitting feathers because i hadn,t put lotto numbers on and they come up.

by vontheone February 15, 2009