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spue

spue is the obsolete form of spew.

Meaning of spew

Verb

spew (third-person singular simple present spews, present participle spewing, simple past spewed, past participle spewed or (rare) spewn)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive) 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
  3. (transitive) 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
    Synonyms:
    gush
  4. (intransitive) 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
  5. (informal, intransitive) To vomit.
    • Bleeding gums an' no saliva can make your partner spew.2008, Colin Shaddick, Isn't Sex Noisy, →ISBN, page 41
  6. (intransitive) 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

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Forms of spue

third-person singular presentspues
present participlespuing
present participlespueing
past participlespued
pastspued

Questions about spue

What is spue the obsolete form of?
Spue is the obsolete form of spew.

Words near spue in the dictionary

  1. spudnut
  2. spudnuts
  3. spuds
  4. spudzooka
  5. spudzookas
  6. spue
  7. spued
  8. spueing
  9. spues
  10. spuesome
  11. Spuffy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spue (page history and authors); spew (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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