spew
/spjuː/
spew verb: to eject forcibly and in a stream.
Verb
spew (third-person singular simple present spews, present participle spewing, simple past spewed, past participle spewed or (rare) spewn)
- To eject forcibly and in a stream.
- 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.2014 December 11, Megan Willett, “The 16 Most Disappointing Places To Visit On Earth”, in Business Insider UK
- Synonyms:
- gush
- To be forcibly ejected.
- 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.2013, John Andes, Control Is Jack, →ISBN, page 216
- To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.
- Set such a program running and it will continue to spew out sentences until you shut it down.1999, Laurence Goldstein, Clear and Queer Thinking, →ISBN
- Outside of the basic reading, writing, and math skills, and having an idea of what's out there, they were just spewing useless information.1999, Lee Carroll, Indigo Children, →ISBN, page 212
- Synonyms:
- gush
- To be written or spoken voluminously.
- The lies continued to spew forth.2011, Kari Rains, It Doesn't Hurt That Bad: And Other Lies My Mom Told Me, →ISBN, page 31
- To vomit.
- Bleeding gums an' no saliva can make your partner spew.2008, Colin Shaddick, Isn't Sex Noisy, →ISBN, page 41
- To ejaculate.
- 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 lap17th century, widely attributed to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
- Inquiring minds may be wondering what could possibly cause the rev to behave in such a fashion, thereby diverting his attention away from such a holy task. Well, the answer lies deep. Not deep within his heart, mind, or soul. But deep inside his clammy right hand, which was clutching a handful of...2012, F.W. Brooks, The Tithes of March: A Novel by F.W. Brooks, →ISBN
- To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
- The spewing or moulding of upper leather is something that causes considerable annoyance.1907, Shoe Retailer and Boots and Shoes Weekly, volume 63, page 65
- A manufacturer writes: We have had so much trouble with colored side leather and both colored and black cabrettas spewing within the past six or eight months that we are at our wits' end to overcome it. All of the tanners from whom we buy the stock contend that this is the best indication that all...1920, The Leather Manufacturer, volumes 31-32, page 409
Noun
spew (usually uncountable, plural spews)
- Vomit.
- 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;1810, Oddicurious, The oddest of all oddities, page 23
- Poor old Sedgwick had been chased around the rugger pitch by a lunatic in a car, and then seen his researcher covered in spew from a drunken student.2001, Douglas Maddon, The English Department's Whores, page 247
- Ejaculate or ejaculation.
- 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.2016, Marah J. Hardt, Sex in the Sea, →ISBN
- Nonsense or lies.
- First thing you gotta have is some sort of confounding unfounded prejudicial spew and contrived agenda aimed at humanity.2009, Lee Kierig, Where, Is Infinite Love?, →ISBN
- I came out with it: “What were you doing listening to her spew that spew, anyway?2013, John Andrew Fredrick, The King of Good Intentions, →ISBN, page 203
- Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
- 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.2011, Stephen Hunter, Night of Thunder, →ISBN
- A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
- Most men familiar with the handling of leather must occasionally have come across samples showing a whitish scum, or spew, upon the surface.1903, Rowland A. Ease, Leather Trades' Review, page 644
- Out of 70 leather samples, 15 developed heavy spew in two to six months.1950, American Leather Chemists Association, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association
- Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.
- 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...2012, R. D. Adams, Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering, →ISBN, page 42
- For a spew corner configuration shown in Figure 2.2 with the adhasive modulus far smaller than the adherent modulus, the order of the stress singularity in the corner A and B can be obtained from the WIlliam's solution under plane strian condition, and it is given in Figure 2.3. It is clear that...2015, Chun Hui Wang, Cong N. Duong, Bonded Joints and Repairs to Composite Airframe Structures, →ISBN, page 25
spew meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
spew in Tamil
- To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
- கக்கு kakku
- to vomit
- கக்கு kakku
spew in Urdu
- قے, قے کرنا
spew in Malayalam
- ഛർദ്ദി, ഓക്കാനിക്കുക
spew in Kannada
- ಪ್ರವಾಹವಾಗಿ ಹರಿ, ನೆರೆಯಾಗಿ ಚಿಮ್ಮು, ವಾಂತಿಮಾಡು, ಕಕ್ಕು, ಕಾರು, ವಾಂತಿಯಾಗು
Examples of spew in a sentence
- They smile for the camera as they spew their phony message of tolerance, diversity and perversity.2006, Bill Bowman, Savage Lies, →ISBN:
- Our main concerns about these people, is the propaganda they are spewing on our children and how they are twisting and distorting lies about our military and anyone that disagrees with them2010, Victor Bernson, Foolish Naive or Just Plain Stupid, →ISBN, page 38:
- After the rev had spewed his load in Daphne's mouth, he reached down and picked up the Holy Bible,2012, F.W. Brooks, The Tithes of March: A Novel by F.W. Brooks, →ISBN:
- She swiftly pulled herself away, and turned around to face him on her knees, as both cocks jerked abruptly and began to spew their load.2017, Carl East, The Future of Sex:
Synonyms of spew
Forms of spew
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | spews |
| present participle | spewing |
| past | spewed |
| past participle | spewed |
| past participle (rare) | spewn |
| Noun | |
| plural | spews |
Origin of spew
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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Questions about spew
- What does spew mean?
- Spew means to eject forcibly and in a stream.
- What is spew in Tamil?
- Spew in Tamil is கக்கு (kakku). See Spew meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use spew in a sentence?
- They smile for the camera as they spew their phony message of tolerance, diversity and perversity.
- What part of speech is spew?
- Spew can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce spew?
- Spew is pronounced /spjuː/.
- What is the past tense of spew?
- The past tense of spew is spewed.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spew (page history and authors); spew (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spew (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spew (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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