Oxford Dictionary English spitting image nounnoun BrE BrE//ˌspɪtɪŋ ˈɪmɪdʒ// ; NAmE NAmE//ˌspɪtɪŋ ˈɪmɪdʒ// jump to other results Word Originlate 19th cent.: originally as the spit of or the spit and image of; perhaps from the idea of a person apparently being formed from the spit of another, so great is the similarity between them.Idioms be the spitting image of somebody jump to other resultsto look exactly like somebody else She's the spitting image of her mother.See spitting image in the Oxford Advanced American DictionaryCheck pronunciation: spitting image oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
