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Spew
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- 1 Vomit. slang, uncountable, usually
"Just after you've din'd, take a dish that is large, And into it what you have eaten discharge; Then get all the rest that are at the table, to spew in the same as long as they're able; Let them strain very hard, 'till all is brought up, For the more spew there is, the better the soup;"
- 2 Ejaculate or ejaculation. slang, uncountable, usually
"Sea urchins, for example, release between ten and one hundred billion sperm with every ejaculation. That's two orders of magnitude more than the few hundred million sperm per spew an average human bloke can dish out."
- 3 Nonsense or lies. uncountable, usually
"First thing you gotta have is some sort of confounding unfounded prejudicial spew and contrived agenda aimed at humanity."
- 4 Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing. uncountable, usually
"He felt the flimsy canvas yield without a whisper, devoured by the roaring bull of the truck, and the whiskey bottles shattered in a spew of brownish chaos, asparkle with the light, blown this way and that by the big vehicle's velocity."
- 5 A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather. uncountable, usually
"Most men familiar with the handling of leather must occasionally have come across samples showing a whitish scum, or spew, upon the surface."
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- 6 Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint. uncountable, usually
"The spew is represented by a triangular fillet 0.5 mm high. It can be seen that, because of the predominance of the major principal stress, the adhesive at the ends of the adhesive layer and in the spew fillet is essentially subjected to a tensile load at about 45° to the axis of loading. The highest stresses occur within the spew at the corner of the unloaded adherend, the presence of the 90° corner introducing a stress-concentration effect."
- 1 To eject forcibly and in a stream, transitive
"But you get to the beach via monorail and you get to the sand and look out to the ocean and all you see is oil tankers and factories spewing smoke on the horizon. It was like some sort of futuristic dystopia."
- 2 eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth wordnet
- 3 To be forcibly ejected. intransitive
"The blow is not as severe as those to his leg. It is meant only to break, not crush. Blood and internal fluids spew from his nose."
- 4 eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical wordnet
- 5 To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. transitive
"Set such a program running and it will continue to spew out sentences until you shut it down."
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- 6 expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth wordnet
- 7 To be written or spoken voluminously. intransitive
"The lies continued to spew forth."
- 8 To vomit. informal, intransitive
"Bleeding gums an' no saliva can make your partner spew."
- 9 To ejaculate. intransitive
"I rise at eleven, I dine about two, I get drunk before seven, and the next thing I do; I send for my whore, when for fear of a clap, I spend in her hand, and I spew in her lap"
- 10 To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning. intransitive
"The spewing or moulding of upper leather is something that causes considerable annoyance."
Etymology
From Middle English spewen, from Old English spīwan, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Germanic cognates include English spit, West Frisian spije, Dutch spuien, Dutch spuwen, Low German speen, spiien, German speien (“to spew, spit, vomit”), Swedish spy, Danish spy, Faroese spýggja, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan). Also cognate, through Indo-European, with Latin spuō (“spit”, verb), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “spit, vomit”), Albanian fyt (“throat”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ), Russian плева́ть (plevátʹ), Persian تف (tof), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhī́vati).
From Middle English spewen, from Old English spīwan, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Germanic cognates include English spit, West Frisian spije, Dutch spuien, Dutch spuwen, Low German speen, spiien, German speien (“to spew, spit, vomit”), Swedish spy, Danish spy, Faroese spýggja, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan). Also cognate, through Indo-European, with Latin spuō (“spit”, verb), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “spit, vomit”), Albanian fyt (“throat”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ), Russian плева́ть (plevátʹ), Persian تف (tof), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhī́vati).
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