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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
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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