Meaning

6 senses
  1. (slang, uncountable, usually)Vomit.

  2. (slang, uncountable, usually)Ejaculate or ejaculation.

  3. (uncountable, usually)Nonsense or lies.

  4. (uncountable, usually)Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.

  5. (uncountable, usually)A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.

  6. (uncountable, usually)Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Black smoke spewed out of the third-story windows.

    ruЧёрный дым вырывался из окон третьего этажа. — Ooneykcall

  2. The volcano spewed smoke that smelled faintly of brimstone.

  3. Tom keeps spewing out high-end terms, but I know it's all fluff.

  4. And why should I listen to somebody who spews out nothing but nonsense?

  5. Please stop spewing lies.

Origin

From Middle English spewen, from Old English spīwan, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwan, fro

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”).

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Forms

plural: spews
Singularspew

uncountable

Word family

1 related words
Derivedspewy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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