spewy, a.
(ˈspjuːɪ)
Also 7–8 spewey.
[f. spew v.1 + -y.]
1. Of ground: Tending to excessive wetness; from which water rises or oozes out. Chiefly Agric.
| 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. iii. §3. 22 Where the ground is moist, cold, clay, spewy, rushy or mossie. 1721 Mortimer Husb. (ed. 3) I. 110 The place was cover'd with a scurf of wet spewy Earth about a Foot thick. 1733 Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xviii. 251 Hills are made wet and spewy by the Rain-water which falls thereon, and soaks into them as into other Land. 1821 Cobbett Rural Rides (1853) 49 A nasty spewy black gravel on the top of a sour clay. 1849 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. X. ii. 437 The wet ‘spewy’ pastures of the Cotswold Hills. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen xxvii, They..splashed through a good deal of spewy ground. |
b. transf. Of literary style: Sloppy, slovenly.
| 1829 [H. Best] Personal & Lit. Mem. 171 The main cause of the puffy, spungy, spewy, washy style that prevails at the present day. |
2. Frothy, effervescent. rare—1.
| 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 279 Whereby any such spewy, creamy Head or Ferments, is entirely kept off. |