Definition of Spewy

1. a. Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.

Definition of Spewy

1. Adjective. Moist; marshy; emitting water. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spewy

1. boggy [adj SPEWIER, SPEWIEST] - See also: boggy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spewy

spettle
spetum
spetznaz
speustic
spew out
spew up
spewed
spewer
spewers
spewier
spewiest
spewiness
spewing
spews
spewy (current term)
sphacel
sphacelate
sphacelated
sphacelates
sphacelating
sphacelation
sphacelations
sphaceli
sphacelism
sphaceloderma
sphacelous
sphacelus
sphaer
sphaera recta

Literary usage of Spewy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"spewy ground is when water seems to ooze out at the surface. Thick there vive acres is a nasty spewy sort of a field, ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"'"Wet spewy grounds.'—Modem Husbandman, II. ii. 122. [Where water from some higher ground oozes from the surface.— RH] Spike-leaves. Lavandula Spica, DC. ..."

3. Old Country and Farming Words: Gleaned from Agricultural Books by James Britten (1880)
"'Wet spewy grounds.'—Modern Husbandman, II. ii. 122. [Where water from some higher ground oozes from the surface.— EH] Spike-leaves. Lavandula Spica, DC. ..."

4. Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, and Seventh of England's Dominion by A. Atkinson (1833)
"The soil, like most others in this district, is, by nature, soft and spewy, the redundant water proceeding, in some instances, from deep springs, ..."

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