See Belyando spew on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "Ultimately of Australian Aboriginal derivation; named for the Belyando River of central Queensland.\nThe expression dates from no later 1891, from when it was in use in a shearer′s song.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "Belyando spew (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Australian English", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "en:Diseases" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1908, Australasian Medical Association, Australasian Medical Gazette: The Journal of the Australasian branches of the British Medical Association, volume 27, page 25:", "text": "Filariasis, anchylostomiasis, tropical anaemias, and the many and varied tropical disorders, from malaria and dengue to Barcoo rot and Belyando spew, await the application of modern research methods to place them on the necessary footing to render prophylaxis and treatment more satisfactory[…].", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An illness afflicting shearers, characterised by vomiting after meals and presumed to have been due to the hard work of shearing bent over in stifling heat (though more likely due to a local grass)." ], "links": [ [ "pathology", "pathology" ], [ "shearer", "shearer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia, slang, pathology, obsolete) An illness afflicting shearers, characterised by vomiting after meals and presumed to have been due to the hard work of shearing bent over in stifling heat (though more likely due to a local grass)." ], "tags": [ "Australia", "obsolete", "slang", "uncountable" ], "topics": [ "medicine", "pathology", "sciences" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Barcoo sickness" }, { "word": "Barcoo spew" }, { "word": "Barcoo vomit" }, { "word": "Burdekin vomit" } ], "word": "Belyando spew" }
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