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verb

Spew v. i.

To vomit.

To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

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Etymology of 'Spew'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spew" Quotes from Famous Books

... Revelation that presents a nauseated Christ: "Because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... Heart's Blood, Her Clack she wou'd not hold: Thus her Chat she did begin, Is this your time of coming in; The Clock strikes One, you'll be undone, If thus you lead your Life: My Dear said I, I can't deny, But what you say is true; I do intend, my Life to mend, Pray lends the Pot to Spew. ...

— Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 • Various

... with the usual error, that after peace was made between France and England, on April 2, 1559 (the treaty of Cateau Cambresis), the Regent "began to spew forth and disclose the latent venom of her double heart." She looked "frowardly" on Protestants, "commanded her household to use all abominations at Easter," she herself communicated, "and it is supposed that after that day the devil ...

— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang

Words linked to "Spew" : expel, exhaust, throw up, keep down, eruct, cast, ptyalize, spewer, pass, be sick, excrete, release, egest, ptyalise, regurgitate, purge, expectorate, vomit, spue, barf, cough out, spit, eliminate, cat, cough up, discharge, spit up, sick, eject, spew out, disgorge, puke