spew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: spews
Etymology: 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 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).
Senses: examples: text: Just after you've din'd, take a dish that is large, And into it what you have eaten discharge; Then get all the rest that are at the table, to spew in the same as long as they're able; Let them strain very hard, 'till all is brought up, For the more spew there is, the better the soup;
ref: 1810, Oddicurious, The oddest of all oddities, page 23:
text: 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.
ref: 2001, Douglas Maddon, The English Department's Whores, page 247:
text: 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.
ref: 2011, Gillian Somers, Julie Cain, Megan Jeffery, Essential VCE Business Management Units 1 and 2, →ISBN, page 122:
text: 'Harder to detect than ipecac or apomorphine hydrochloride.' 'Detect?' Parkhurst asked. 'In the spew.'
ref: 2012, Dean Koontz, From the Corner of his Eye, →ISBN:
glosses: Vomit.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2016, Marah J. Hardt, Sex in the Sea, →ISBN:
glosses: Ejaculate or ejaculation.
examples: text: First thing you gotta have is some sort of confounding unfounded prejudicial spew and contrived agenda aimed at humanity.
ref: 2009, Lee Kierig, Where, Is Infinite Love?, →ISBN:
text: I came out with it: “What were you doing listening to her spew that spew, anyway?
ref: 2013, John Andrew Fredrick, The King of Good Intentions, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Nonsense or lies.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011, Stephen Hunter, Night of Thunder, →ISBN:
glosses: Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
examples: text: Most men familiar with the handling of leather must occasionally have come across samples showing a whitish scum, or spew, upon the surface.
ref: 1903, Rowland A. Ease, Leather Trades' Review, page 644:
text: Out of 70 leather samples, 15 developed heavy spew in two to six months.
ref: 1950, American Leather Chemists Association, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association:
text: Plasticizer spew is determined by observation of samples bent through an arc of 180o.
ref: 2004, George Wypych, Handbook of Plasticizers, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
examples: text: The spew is represented by a triangular fillet 0.5 mm high. It can be seen that, because of the predominance of the major principal stress, the adhesive at the ends of the adhesive layer and in the spew fillet is essentially subjected to a tensile load at about 45° to the axis of loading. The highest stresses occur within the spew at the corner of the unloaded adherend, the presence of the 90° corner introducing a stress-concentration effect.
ref: 2012, R. D. Adams, Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering, →ISBN, page 42:
text: For a spew corner configuration shown in Figure 2.2 with the adhasive modulus far smaller than the adherent modulus, the order of the stress singularity in the corner A and B can be obtained from the WIlliam's solution under plane strian condition, and it is given in Figure 2.3. It is clear that spew corner would be free of singulatirites when the fillet angle is less than a critical angle, which is dependent on the Poisson's ration of the adhesive.
ref: 2015, Chun Hui Wang, Cong N. Duong, Bonded Joints and Repairs to Composite Airframe Structures, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Besides bondline thickness control, the adhesive fillet (called adhesive spew) is an important issue in joint assembly. The spew is the result of the adhesive squeezed out of the lap region at the moment of the joint manufacture. It was shown that significant increases in shear strength of lap joints, compared with square-ended bondlines, can be achieved through the formation of an adhasive spew at the overlap ends.
ref: 2018, Sergio T. Amancio Filho, Jorge F. dos Santos, Lucian-Attila Blaga, Joining of Polymer-Metal Hybrid Structures: Principles and Applications, →ISBN:
glosses: Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.
Derived terms: Belyando spew
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