bespew

English

Alternative forms

• bespue

Etymology

From be- +‎ spew.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To soil or daub with spew; vomit on; foul with vomit.
   • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bespew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)