spue

[ spyoo ]

noun, verb (used with or without object),spued, spu·ing.
  1. less common variant of spew.

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How to use spue in a sentence

  • So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out.

  • For poor sinners make poor saints, and the lukewarm I will spue out of my mouth.

    Incredible Adventures | Algernon Blackwood
  • If one of these uses can be made of him, let him not long offend the stomach of your company; your best way is to spue him out.

  • I persuade you, that God is wringing grapes of red wine for Scotland; and that this land shall drink, and spue and fall.

    Letters of Samuel Rutherford | Samuel Rutherford
  • When they have eaten and drunken you, their stomach shall be sick, and they shall spue you out alive.

    Letters of Samuel Rutherford | Samuel Rutherford

British Dictionary definitions for spue

spue

/ (spjuː) /


verbspues, spuing or spued
  1. an archaic spelling of spew

Derived forms of spue

  • spuer, noun

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