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spewy, a.|ˈspjuːɪ|
Also 7–8 spewey.
[f. spew v.1 + -y.]
1. Of ground: Tending to excessive wetness; from which water rises or oozes out. Chiefly Agric.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. iii. §3. 22 Where the ground is moist, cold, clay, spewy, rushy or mossie. 1721Mortimer Husb. (ed. 3) I. 110 The place was cover'd with a scurf of wet spewy Earth about a Foot thick. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xviii. 251 Hills are made wet and spewy by the Rain-water which falls thereon, and soaks into them as into other Land. 1821Cobbett Rural Rides (1853) 49 A nasty spewy black gravel on the top of a sour clay. 1849Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. X. ii. 437 The wet ‘spewy’ pastures of the Cotswold Hills. 1879M. E. Braddon Vixen xxvii, They..splashed through a good deal of spewy ground.
b. transf. Of literary style: Sloppy, slovenly.
1829[H. Best] Personal & Lit. Mem. 171 The main cause of the puffy, spungy, spewy, washy style that prevails at the present day.
2. Frothy, effervescent. rare—1.
1743Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 279 Whereby any such spewy, creamy Head or Ferments, is entirely kept off. |