spew

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• /spjuː/
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• rhymes with -uː
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• CMU ARPABET: S P Y UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”). Germanic cognates include English spit, West Frisian spije, Dutch spuien, Dutch spuwen, Low German speen, spiien, German speien (“to spew, spit, vomit”), Swedish spy, Danish spy, Faroese spýggja, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan). Also cognate, through Indo-European, with Latin spuō (“spit”, verb), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “spit, vomit”), Albanian fyt (“throat”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ), Russian плева́ть (plevátʹ), Persian تف (tof), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhī́vati).

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: бълвам (bǎlvam) — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Bulgarian: изригвам (izrigvam) — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Czech: chrlit — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Czech: vychrlit — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Czech: vyvrhnout — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Danish: spy — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Finnish: syöstä — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• French: cracher — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• French: vomir — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Galician: arroxar — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Korean: 게우다 (ge'uda) — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Latin: vomō — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Lithuanian: spjauti — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Macedonian: бликнува (bliknuva) — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Macedonian: блика (blika) — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Russian: изрыга́ть (izrygátʹ) — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Russian: изверга́ть (izvergátʹ) — to eject forcibly and in a stream
• Bulgarian: бликвам (blikvam) — to be forcibly ejected
• Czech: tryskat — to be forcibly ejected
• Czech: prýštit — to be forcibly ejected
• Czech: řinout se — to be forcibly ejected
• Danish: spy — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Danish: udspy — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Spanish: parlar — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Spanish: macanear — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Spanish: desbarrar — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Spanish: cagar fuera del wáter — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Spanish: desvariar — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Spanish: disparatar — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Tamil: கக்கு (kakku) — To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading
• Bulgarian: повръщам (povrǎštam) — to vomit
• Czech: zvracet — to vomit
• Czech: blít — to vomit
• Czech: vrhnout — to vomit
• Danish: kaste op — to vomit
• Dutch: overgeven — to vomit
• Dutch: kotsen — to vomit
• Finnish: oksentaa — to vomit
• French: vomir — to vomit
• German: erbrechen — to vomit
• German: kotzen — to vomit
• Korean: 게우다 (ge'uda) — to vomit
• Lithuanian: vemti — to vomit
• Macedonian: повраќа (povraḱa) — to vomit
• Macedonian: блуе (blue) — to vomit
• Polish: wymiotować — to vomit
• Polish: zwymiotować — to vomit
• Polish: rzygać — to vomit
• Portuguese: vomitar — to vomit
• Russian: блева́ть (blevátʹ) — to vomit
• Tamil: கக்கு (kakku) — to vomit
• Walloon: rivômi — to vomit