spewingn.
/ˈspjuːɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of the verb in various senses; vomiting; an instance or occasion of this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting
spewinga1000
vominga1382
brakinga1398
castinga1398
outcastinga1398
vomitc1405
perbreakinga1425
parbreaking1440
vomishmenta1450
upcastingc1450
upbreaking1493
vomiting1495
abortment1577
heaving1601
puke1612
puking1629
egestion1633
evomition1653
vomition1656
yarking1874
emesis1875
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 230 Euomatio, speowung.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 162 Euomitio, spiwingc.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 393 Also he usede ofte clistories and spuynge.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xiii. xxi Þe see..bredeþ drede and feere & heedeache and spuying.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 471/1 Spwynge, or brakynge (or parbrakynge), vomitus.
1500 Ortus Vocabulorum Ructus i. vomitus, angl'. a spwynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hab. ii. C For the cuppe of the Lordes righte honde shall compasse the aboute, and shamefull spewinge in steade of thy worshipe [hōde in text].
1657 H. Crouch Welsh Traveller 4 Then to spewing did her [= she] fall.
1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 23 As often as I view'd the Ocean, or durst peep out of my Cabin, to order Palmer to assist me in my Spewing.
1842 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. 69 Egueulement,..elliptical enlargement of the bore, called running or spewing of the muzzle, of a gun, occasioned by quick and long continued firing.
1883 Athenæum 4 Aug. 146/3 The ‘spueing’ of the sloppy ink over the edges of the letters.
b. attributive, as spewing-fit, †spewing-nut (see quot. 1579).
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1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things i. 138 The powder of Nux vomica, called the Spuing Nutte.
a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 21 When the Spewing-fit is over, he'll sit down to take a Nod.
2. Matter spewed out or vomited; spew.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting > vomit
spewingc1380
vomea1382
vomitc1390
voment1482
parbreak1590
vomiture1598
spew1609
puke1705
vomiting1716
vomitus1904
throw-up1918
sick1959
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 330 Houndis..þat after þe tyme þat þei have spued þei turnen aȝen and eeten þe spuynge.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. xxviii. 8 Alle bordis weren fillid with spuyng and filthis.
1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 226 If a man by any chaunce of glotony, do spue out ye sacrement, the same spuyng must be brent.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 98 Spuans, what is vomited.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
spewingadj.
1. That spews, in senses of the verb.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > relating to vomiting > vomiting
vominga1382
spewinga1425
sick1631
sick at (or to, in) the stomach1653
puking1675
sick as a horse1705
parbreaking1746
vomiting1879
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > ejecting
spewing1578
ejaculatory1655
ejective1657
extrusive1816
throw-out1870
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. xix. 14 A drunkun man and spuynge.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 97 Thow poysonit spewand spout.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 44 Earth's exhalations hot Are spewing Ætna's that to Heav'n aspire.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xviii. clxi. 279 That Simon he outspit in Heresy, And higher than his spewing Father flew.
1856 Deil's Hallowe'en 16 (E.D.D.) Some dreepit a' wi' spewin' sairs.
2. Agriculture. Of ground: Characterized by the oozing out of moisture; excessively wet; spewy. Frequently in the 17th cent.; now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire
mirya1398
mire?1440
fennish1577
spewing1610
mirish1630
poachy1707
poached1793
pugged1843
squoggy1950
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 24 Spewing grounds ouer-soaked with sower moisture are well releeued by being sowne with Oates.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. iv. 10 The Soyle is for the generall a warme kinde of earth, there being little cold-spewing land.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xvii. 36 In moist, and boggy places they will flourish wonderfully, so the ground be not spewing.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 11 Chalk is healing, and therefore proper for clay, cold, and spewing grounds.
3. Issuing as if spewed out.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > copiously or continuously
outflowingOE
wellingc1400
outgushing1569
overflown1579
profluous1585
outstreaming1598
spewing1616
effluxivea1657
effluxing1674
effluenced1691
effluent1726
effusive1726
outwelling1736
profluent1737
outpouring1808
pumping1812
gushing1815
founting1827
flowing1867
fountaining1883
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. x. 540 These Oxen are fittest for those soyles which are tough and firme, without anie spewing moisture in them.
1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 86 Cutting your Furrow..about a foot beneath the spewing water.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 103 The spewing reek, That fill'd, wi' hoast-provoking smeek, The auld, clay biggin.
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