Green’s Dictionary of Slang

spew n.

[SE spew, vomit]

1. (US) used as a person-person insult.

[US]Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 10 June n.p.: Now let it be known throughout the town / That Burnham is a Hog, / And Osgood too, a perfect spew.

2. (orig. US campus) semen.

[US] P. Munro Sl. U.

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spewsome (adj.) [on model of awesome adj.; lit. enough to make one vomit]

of food, drink, objects, events or people, disgusting, repellent.

R.L. Stevenson Vailima Letters 🌐 Ch. xxxix: Vailima, May 18 1894 [...] You are to remember besides there is that paper of mine on Bunyan in THE MAGAZINE OF ART. O, and then there’s another thing in SEELEY called some spewsome name, I cannot recall it.
[UK]Guardian 19 Oct. 🌐 Who now remembers, [...] any of them [i.e. records] except possibly Especially For You, the spewsome Christmas duet with his then girlfriend, Kylie Minogue?
UKGameShows.com 24 July 🌐 Brian seems to have calmed down a lot now that Josh has left. Paul and Helen are all over each other in a pretty spewsome manner.

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