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verb
Spue  v. t. & v. i.  See Spew.


Spew  v. t.  (past & past part. spewed; pres. part. spewing)  (Written also spue)  
1.
To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
2.
To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject. "Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth."





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"Spue" Quotes from Famous Books



... England. Here every individual has his own gobelet, which stands before him, and he helps himself occasionally with wine or water, or both, which likewise stand upon the table. But I know no custom more beastly than that of using water-glasses, in which polite company spirt, and squirt, and spue the filthy scourings of their gums, under the eyes of each other. I knew a lover cured of his passion, by seeing this nasty cascade discharged from the mouth of his mistress. I don't doubt but I shall live to see the day, when the hospitable custom of the antient Aegyptians will be revived; ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett
... for that till Mason is out of England: nor even then. To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... seen, but their troubles are not yet all told. 'Surely,' they wrote, 'a Master like our Lord, who gave such service when He was still a servant Himself,—surely He will have hearty and unfeigned service from us, or none at all. Will He not spue the lukewarm servant out of His mouth?' I grant you, wrote Rutherford, that our Master must have honesty. The one thing He will unmask and will not endure is hypocrisy. But if you mean to insinuate that our hearts must always be entirely given ...
— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte
... was old, and floods enow fulfilled his dripping gear,) Made for the holm and sat him down upon the dry rock there: 180 The Teucrians laughed to see him fall, and laughed to see him swim, And laugh to see him spue the brine back ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil


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