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 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.

References

• “bespew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.