spew
pronunciation
How to pronounce spew in British English:
UK [spjuː]
How to pronounce spew in American English:
US [spjuː]
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- Verb:
- expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
- eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Word Origin
- spew
- spew: see spit
- spew (v.)
- Old English spiwan "spew, spit," from Proto-Germanic *spiew- (cognates: Old Saxon spiwan, Old Norse spyja, Old Frisian spiwa, Middle Dutch spijen, Dutch spuwen, Old High German spiwan, German speien, Gothic spiewan "to spit"), from PIE *sp(y)eu- "to spew, spit," probably ultimately of imitative origin (cognates: Latin spuere; Greek ptuein, Doric psyttein; Old Church Slavonic pljuja, Russian plevati; Lithuanian spiauti). Also in Old English as a weak verb, speowan. Related: Spewed; spewing.
- spew (n.)
- "vomited matter," c. 1600, from spew (v.).
Example
- 1. Buses and lorries using low-quality diesel spew arsenic into the air .
- 2. The eruption 's spew was enough to blanket up to 18 million square miles of land and sea .
- 3. Some environmental groups are concerned about the energy the plants will use , and the greenhouse gases they will spew out .
- 4. Georges wife : " I knew that your drunk ass would spew bile and booze all over that new shirt ! "
- 5. No , the search engine does not spew out co2 znout uses the ad-revenue to buy renewable energy certificates which balances out the carbon footprint caused by znout .