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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
spue is a verb meaning "expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth". It carries 2 recorded senses.
expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
“The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer”
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
“After drinking too much, the students vomited”
“He purged continuously”
“The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spue come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.