bespew

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Etymology

From be- +‎ spew.

Verb

bespew (third-person singular simple present bespews, present participle bespewing, simple past and past participle bespewed)

  1. (obsolete) To stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
    • 1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Uneasy Wife”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, page 160:
      [...] he does nothing but lye snoring all Night long by my Side, and sometimes bespues the Bed too, to say nothing more.
    • 1885, Fritz Schultze, Fetichism : a contribution to anthropology and the history of religion, page 12:
      Time was when we used to bespew the whole floor of the hut three or four times a day, but now we can do it but rarely even once a day.

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