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語源

From be- (“on, upon, all over”) +‎ spew.

動詞

bespew (third-person singular simple present bespews, present participle bespewing, simple past and past participle bespewed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
   • 1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, pages 125–126:

     In that a Snayl or Dodman, vvhich is not only not vvarm, but to our feeling, very cold, is fain to brood its as cold svveatty eggs, neſted upon a cold vvet earth, beſpievving them about vvith the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty vveather, and all making vvay to a kind and timely hatching of them: […] I dare undertake to light ſooner of that vvarmth and reek and air, that vvill hatch an hens egge, than that cold and devv and clammineſs, that goes to the hatching of a ſnails.

   • 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.

   • 2008, Edwin Millet, Old Gods Die Hard, page 6:

     Well should we weep that force of arm again
     bespews unholy blood across the plain […]

   • 2025, Peter Novobatzky, ‎Ammon Shea, Depraved English:

     It was another one of those nights for the Jenkinses: getting drunk, fighting viciously, making up, making love, and, inevitably, bespewing each other before it was all over.

参照

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