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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spew

spew verb

spewed; spewing; spews

Definition of spew

 (Entry 1 of 2)

intransitive verb
1 : vomit
2 : to come forth in a flood or gush
3 : to ooze out as if under pressure : exude

transitive verb
1 : vomit
2 : to send or cast forth with vigor or violence or in great quantity 
+a volcano spewing out ash —often used with out

spew noun

Definition of spew (Entry 2 of 2)
1 : matter that is vomited : vomit
2 : material that exudes or is extruded

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the cognate in German "speien" has mostly the same meanings

Cheers Rolf
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Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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Re^7: One to one file output idiom
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 23, 2020 at 14:47 UTC

    Meh. I'm telling you, most speakers of modern English don't think of "spew" as a synonym for "vomit". Those other definitions are pretty much spot on, though.

    The one case where people use "spew" to mean "vomit" anymore is when they're using euphemisms, notably in the case of barfing due to alcohol consumption. :-)

    OMG, I'm gonna spew!
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      most speakers of modern English don't think of "spew" as a synonym for "vomit".

      I cannot speak for most, but whenever I (as a native American English speaker) read that word, my mental voice is Skippy Squirrel, and it definitely has the "vomit" connotation for me; in fact, for me, every other usage of spew derives from the "vomit": a volcano spews forth lava because it's similar to the way that a human spews forth vomit, or an idiot spews forth nonsense because it's analogous to the way that a sick child spews out breakfast. If you don't have vomit as your default definition for spew, you're lucky, IMO, because it prevents some nasty mental images when people use "spew" for the other variants.

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      If the subject is a person, it should mean vomiting.

      In German "speien" can also mean spitting out or with big force (like spitting out disgusting food or spitting with disgust onto s.o. face)

      I suppose it's not much different in English.

      As I already said, this might be accurate for writing a whole file at once, I don't see how "slurping" (which is actually a Dutch/German loan word) reflects "gulping" a whole file.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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        It's a perfectly cromulent usage going back to the ancients: slurp

        Clojure uses the pair spit and slurp, coincidentally.

        The cake is a lie.
        The cake is a lie.
        The cake is a lie.

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        You do realize that English diverged from German like a thousand years ago, right?

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