spew

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening…

   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.
   • Outside of the basic reading, writing, and math skills, and having an idea of what's out there, they were just spewing useless information.
   • They smile for the camera as they spew their phony message of tolerance, diversity and perversity.
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   1. 4

      To be written or spoken voluminously.

      • The lies continued to spew forth.
   2. 5

      To vomit.

      • Bleeding gums an' no saliva can make your partner spew.
   3. 6

      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 lap
      • 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.
   4. 7

      To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a…

      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.
   5. 8

      Vomit.

      • 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.
      • It was a smart gesture on the part of the nanny agency, who is often dealing with mums who are returning to work — many of whom would welcome a complimentary makeover after months of sleep deprivation and baby spew.
   6. 9

      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.
   7. 10

      Nonsense or lies.

      • First thing you gotta have is some sort of confounding unfounded prejudicial spew and contrived agenda aimed at humanity.
      • I came out with it: “What were you doing listening to her spew that spew, anyway?
   8. 11

      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.
   9. 12

      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.
      • Out of 70 leather samples, 15 developed heavy spew in two to six months.
      • Plasticizer spew is determined by observation of samples bent through an arc of 180o.
   10. 13

       Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a…

       Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.

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