bespew
bespew verb: to stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
Verb
bespew (third-person singular simple present bespews, present participle bespewing, simple past and past participle bespewed)
- To stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
- In that a Snayl or Dodman, vvhich is not only not vvarm, but to our feeling, very cold, is fain to brood its as cold svveatty eggs, neſted upon a cold vvet earth, beſpievving them about vvith the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty vveather, and all making vvay to a kind and timely...1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert...
- [...] he does nothing but lye snoring all Night long by my Side, and sometimes bespues the Bed too, to say nothing more.1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Uneasy Wife”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, page 160
bespew meaning in Tamil
bespew in Tamil
- கக்குதல்
Examples of bespew in a sentence
- Time was when we used to bespew the whole floor of the hut three or four times a day, but now we can do it but rarely even once a day.1885, Fritz Schultze, Fetichism : a contribution to anthropology and the history of religion, page 12:
- It was another one of those nights for the Jenkinses: getting drunk, fighting viciously, making up, making love, and, inevitably, bespewing each other before it was all over.2025, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved English:
Forms of bespew
| third-person singular present | bespews |
|---|---|
| present participle | bespewing |
| past participle | bespewed |
| past | bespewed |
| alternative form | bespue |
Origin of bespew
From be- (“on, upon, all over”) + spew.
Questions about bespew
- What does bespew mean?
- Bespew means to stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
- What is bespew in Tamil?
- Bespew in Tamil is கக்குதல். See Bespew meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bespew in a sentence?
- Time was when we used to bespew the whole floor of the hut three or four times a day, but now we can do it but rarely even once a day.
- What part of speech is bespew?
- Bespew is a verb.
- What is the past tense of bespew?
- The past tense of bespew is bespewed.
Words near bespew in the dictionary
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