Belyando spewn.
/bɛlˌjandəʊ ˈspjuː/, U.S. /bɛlˌjændoʊ ˈspju/, Australian English /belˌjændoʊ ˈspjuː/ Australian colloquial. Now historical.
An illness characterized by vomiting after taking food and associated with parts of Australia, esp. Queensland. Cf. Barcoo n.The cause of the illness remains unknown.
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Belyando spew1884
Barcoo rot1889
1884 Queensland Figaro 20 Dec. 779/3 A few old fogies and ‘hatters’ here do battle with the sandy blight, scrub itch, Belyando spew, and Barcoo rot.
1912 J. B. Cleland Some Dis. Aust. 43 ‘Belyando Spue’..is..a peculiar and often distressing condition characterized by vomiting at meal times, and found in central Australia.
1956 Argus (Melbourne) 17 Feb. 4/6 Belyando spew..was an old-time bush expression for vomiting, and ‘failure to keep food down’.
2009 S. Butler Dinkum Dict. (ed. 3) 16 There was another complaint of the times that went by a variety of names—‘Barcoo sickness’, ‘Burdekin vomit’, ‘Belyando spew’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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