spy
“spy” is a Danish word. Its 2 meanings in English:
noun
verb
- to barf (US), throw up, vomit, spew (also figurative)
Etymology
From Old Norse spýja, from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Compare Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål spy, Icelandic spýja, English spew, Dutch spuwen, German speien.
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