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Spue vs Sue - What's the difference?

spue | sue |

As verbs the difference between spue and sue

is that spue is obsolete form of lang=en while sue is to follow.

As a proper noun Sue is

a diminutive of Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.

As a noun Sue is

a Mary Sue (type of character in fiction).

spue

English

Verb

(spu)
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    sue

    English

    Verb

  • To follow.
  • * , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
  • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
  • though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
  • (label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  • (label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • To clean (the beak, etc.).
  • To leave high and dry on shore.
  • To court.
  • Derived terms

    * sue for peace

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