spewiness
(ˈspjuːɪnɪs)
[f. spewy a.]
Agric. Spewy, boggy, or undrained condition (of land).
| 1653 Gauden Hierasp. 551 These..would in time bear store of good fruits; if the coldnesse and spewinesse of the soil..did not make them dwindle. 1762 Tull's Horse-Hoeing Husb. (ed. 4) xvi. 246 The most prejudiced Farmers agree, that keeping the Lands or Ridges of wet Ground always cross the Descent doth cure its Spewiness. |