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spue

  [spyoo] ,verb (used without object), verb (used with object), spued, spu⋅ing, noun
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spew.

spew

  [spyoo] ,
–verb (used without object)
1. to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
–verb (used with object)
2. to eject from the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
3. to cast forth, gush, or eject, as in disgust or anger: The angry sergeant spewed his charges at us.
–noun
4. something that is spewed; vomit.
Also, spue.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME spewen to vomit, cast forth foul language, OE spīwan to vomit; c. G speien, ON spȳja, Goth speiwan, L spuere

Related forms:
spewer, noun
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spue   (spyōō)   
v.   & n. Obsolete
Variant of spew.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
spew (one's)

  1. tv.
    to empty one's stomach; to vomit. : Fred is spewing his guts out because of that lousy fish you served.
  2. tv.
    to tell everything that one knows; to confess everything. (Underworld.) : Lefty was sitting there in the cop-shop spewing his guts out about the bank job.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

spew 
O.E. spiwan "spew, spit," from P.Gmc. *spiwanan (cf. O.S. spiwan, O.N. spyja, O.Fris. spiwa, M.Du. spien, Du. spuwen, O.H.G. spiwan, Ger. speien, Goth. spiewan "to spit"), from PIE *sp(y)eu-, probably ultimately of imitative origin (cf. L. spuere, Gk. ptuein, O.C.S. pljuja, Lith. spiauti). Also in O.E. as a weak verb, speowan. The noun meaning "vomited matter" is attested from 1609.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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