Spew

Definition: Spew

Spew

Verb

1. Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer".

2. Eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate".

3. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)

Note: Spew \Spew\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Spewed; personal pronoun& verb noun. Spewing.]. (Websters 1913)

Chemical Industry

Industry

Mining

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Synonyms: Spew

Ejection

Vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god.

Spew forth, erupt, ooze; (emerge).

Crosswords: Spew

Hey Phil, if you're gonna spew, spew into this. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Now, Garth, if you hurl, then I'm gonna spew. And if I spew, chances are someone else is gonna honk, alright? (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

Do you think that tentacle spew comes out with dry cleaning? (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

I hope you spew your guts out. (Once Were Warriors; writing credit: Riwia Brown; Alan Duff)

You open up your mouth let your lies spew out (Bullet With Your Name; performing artist: The Cars)

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Books

• Spew! & Other Tasteless Tales (Stomach Turners) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Skidmarks: A Collection of Oddities, Rarities, and Vintage Spew (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "spew": spew forth ♦ spew out ♦ spew over ♦ spew up. Additional references.

Albanian

vjellje (eructation, retch, vomit), vjell (belch, bring up, disgorge, eructate, puke, regorge, reject, spue, void, vomit), nxjerrje (digging, discharge, drawing, eduction, ejection, elicitation, emission, excretion, extraction, extrusion, heave, inference, leakage, outage, output, promulgation, recovery, runout, stripping, superannuation), krupë (abhorrence, disgust, horror), e përzier (feeling of nausea, qualm, qualmishness, queasiness, queasy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نز (ooze, seep, seepage, sweat, weep), ‏تقيأ (disgorge, gag, heave, puke, regurgitate, reject, retch, throw up, upchuck, vomit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сипя (shower, volley), бълвам (belch, erupt, throw up, vomit), изсипвам (empty, send forth, shoot, spill, tip out, unload), изригвам (belch, eruct, erupt, shoot out, spout, spue, vomit), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop). (various references)

Chinese 

呕吐 (Spewed, Spewing, Vomit, Vomited, Vomiting). (various references)

Czech

zvracet (be sick, fetch up, heave, retch, vomit), vrhnout (cast, puke, thrust, toss, vomit), dávit se (choke up, Keck, puke). (various references)

Danish

stoebefinne (burr, flash, overflow), støbeflige, grat (burr, flash, overflow, paring, shaving, trimming), grad (degree, grade), flydeaffald (burr, flash, overflow). (various references)

Dutch

overloop (corridor, passage), gietnaad (burr, flash, joint, overflow, splice), braam (blackberry, blackberry bush, bramble). (various references)

Farsi 

فوران کردن(مواداتشفشانی), قی کردن (Cat, Regurgitate, Retch, Vomit), بخارج ریختن , بافشارخارج کردن . (various references)

Finnish

purse (fin, flash, flush, overflush, overpress). (various references)

French

vomir (spit), trop plein, gicler (spatter, spirt, spurt), dégueuler, couture, bavure, barbe, amorcer un puits, ébarbure. (various references)

German

spucken (be sick, bring up, puke, spit, splutter, throw up, to spit, vomit). (various references)

Greek 

ξερνώ (belch, puke, sick up, spew forth, spue, throw up, vomit), προεξοχή μετάλλου στην επιφάνεια χυτού αντικειμένου (burr, flash, overflow), περίσσεια χύτευσης, εξεμώ (disgorge, puke, regurgitate, spue, throw up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפלוט (blurt, deliver, disgorge, eject, emit, escape, slip, throw up, vomit), ל�"קיא (disgorge, puke, throw up, upchuck, vomit), לרקוק (expectorate, spit). (various references)

Hungarian

köp (spit, to blow the gaff, to expectorate, to gob, to spill one's guts, to spit), hányás (pitching, puke, vomit, vomiting). (various references)

Indonesian

memburakan (fire, spew forth (water, spout, spray), membura (spew out). (various references)

Italian

sbavatura (dribbling, slime, smear), vomitare (disgorge, retch, throw, throw up, vomit), emettere (breathe, deliver, discharge, draw, ejaculate, eject, emit, expel, express, give out, heave, issue, output, ray, release, send out, spend, utter, write out), eccesso di materiale, bava (dribble, slaver, slime). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

吐出 (disgorge, vomit), 反吐 (vomiting), �'ら�'ら笑う (disgusting!, gross me out!, to guffaw). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�'ろ , へど (vomiting), としゅつ (disgorge, vomit). (various references)

Korean 

� 해내십시�". (various references)

Manx

skeeahrey (disgorge), skeeah (vomit). (various references)

Pig Latin

ewspay

Portuguese

vomitar (belch, cat, disgorge, puke, regorge, regurgitate, reject, spue, throw up, vomit), vômito (belch, puke, vomit), rebarba (barb, burr, fash), material excedente. (various references)

Romanian

scuipa (expectorate, gob, spit, sputter), vomita (disgorge, fetch up, heave, puke, regorge, reject, throw up, vomit), vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, infuse, outpour, pour forth, puke, regorge, shed, spill, spout, tipple, vomit). (various references)

Russian 

рвота (puke, retch, retching, vomit), выжимка (flow, overflow), выпрессовка (flow, overflow), выплыв. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bljuvanje (eructation, puke). (various references)

Spanish

vomitar a uno (puke, upchuck), rebarba (burr, flash, overflow), exceso (excess, extra, glut, overage, overplus, redundance, redundancy, surfeit, surplus), echar fuera, arrojar (belch, bring up, cast, cast out, catapult, chuck, disgorge, dump, emit, fling, give, give off, give out, hawk, hawk up, heave, hurl, jerk, reject, release, result, shoot, skid, sling, slingshots, tell off, throw, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss). (various references)

Swedish

spy (be sick, cat, puke, throw up, vomit, womit). (various references)

Turkish

kusturmak (gag, make sick, puke, regurgitate, spue, turn up), kusmak (bring up, cast, disgorge, feed the fishes, heave, puke, reject, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spue, spue forth, spue out, spue up, throw up, upchuck, vomit), kusma (puke, sickness, throwing up, vomit, vomiting), istifrağ etmek (puke, spue, throw up, vomit). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбухати (spue), виригати (disgorge, eructate, spue), блювати (belch, cascade, keck, puke, retch, sick up, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái thổ ra, cái nôn ra, cái mửa ra. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "spew": spewed, spewer, spewers, spewing, spews. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: espew, opew, saew, sbew, scew, sdew, sfew, sgew, siew, smew, soew, Spaw, spe, spea, speb, spee, speeb, spef, speg, speh, spei, spej, spek, spem, spen, speo, spep, speq, speu, spev, spewe, spewm, spewn, Spex, spey, spez, spiq, splew, spowt, spw, sqew, ssew, suew, svew, swep, swew, sxew, szew, Zpe. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pews.

-1 letter: pes, pew, sew.

-2 letters: es, pe, we.

+1 letter: plews, spews, sweep, swept, swipe, weeps, wipes.

+2 letters: pawers, pesewa, pewees, pewits, powers, spewed, spewer, sweeps, sweepy, swiped, swipes, swiple, twerps, wheeps, whelps, wipers, wisped.

+3 letters: beweeps, bewraps, cowpeas, cowpies, dewlaps, enwraps, gawpers, inswept, nephews, pawnees, pawners, peewees, peewits, pesewas, pewters, plowers, powders, powters, preshow, prewash, prowess, prowest, pshawed, rewraps, screwup, spawned, spawner, spewers, spewing, stewpan, swamped, swamper, swapped, swapper, sweeper, swiples, swipple, swooped, swooper, swopped, tawpies, unswept, upsweep, upswell, upswept, upwells, warpers, waspier, watapes, weapons, weepers, weepies, whisper, wimples, winesop, wispier, woopsed, woopses, yawpers.