Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“spewing” is a form of

spew

/spjuː/ verb, noun

Forms spews spewing spewed spewn

  1. verb (transitive) To eject forcibly and in a stream.
  2. verb (intransitive) To be forcibly ejected.
  3. verb (transitive) To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.
  4. verb (intransitive) To be written or spoken voluminously.
  5. verb (intransitive, informal) To vomit.
  6. verb (intransitive) To ejaculate.
  7. verb (intransitive, leather-working) To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
  8. noun (slang) Vomit.
  9. noun (slang) Ejaculate or ejaculation.
  10. noun Nonsense or lies.
  11. noun Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
  12. noun A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
  13. noun Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.

Synonyms

gush spit ptyalize ptyalise spue spew out eruct vomit vomit up purge cast sick cat be sick disgorge regorge retch puke barf chuck upchuck honk regurgitate throw up

Etymology

From Middle English spewen, from Old English spīwan, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”).
Germanic cognates include English spit, West Frisian spije, Dutch spuien, Dutch spuwen, Low German speen, spiien, German speien (“to spew, spit, vomit”), Swedish spy, Danish spy, Faroese spýggja, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan). Also cognate, through Indo-European, with Latin spuō (“spit”, verb), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “spit, vomit”), Albanian fyt (“throat”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ), Russian плева́ть (plevátʹ), Persian تف (tof), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhī́vati).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
  2. verb To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
  3. verb To vomit. Chaucer.
  4. verb To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

Etymology [OE. spewen, speowen, AS. spiwan;n to D. spuwen to spit. OS & OHG. spiwan, G. speien, Icel. sp to spew, Sw. spy, Dan. spye, Goth. spiewan, th. spjauti, L. spuere to split, Gr. shtiv, shthiv. Cf. Pyke, Spit.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “spew”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details