different between eat vs puke

English

Etymology

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etan? (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?édti, from *h?ed- (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /i?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /it/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Verb

eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten)

1. To ingest; to be ingested.
   1. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
      • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
   3. (intransitive) To consume a meal.
      • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

        I eat in the kitchen.

   4. (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
      • 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)

        I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.

      • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

        […] dish him [the fish] with slices of oranges, barberries, grapes, gooseberries, and butter; and you will find that he eats deliriously either with farced pain or gammon pain.

   5. (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
2. To use up.
   1. (transitive) To destroy, consume, or use up.
      • 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

        His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.

   2. (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
      • 1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)

        No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!

   3. (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
      • 1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)

        Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.

3. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.

4. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
   • 1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)

     I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
5. (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
   • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

     I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.

   • 1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997):

     Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.

   • 2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again: A Novel, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN):

     Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.

   • 2017, Edward W. Robertson, Stardust, Edward W. Robertson:

     The animal was sweating and scared and MacAdams was surprised when they finished up without either of them eating a kick.

   • 2018, Daniel Tomazic, Of Bullies and Men: Young Adult Fiction (?ISBN), page 18:

     There was a resounding smacking noise and Georgy was sure Philip had just eaten a fist.

6. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.

7. (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (consume): consume, swallow; see also Thesaurus:eat
• (cause to worry): bother, disturb, worry
• (eat a meal): dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunch

Derived terms

Related terms

• fret
• ort

Translations

See also

• drink
• edible
• food

Noun

eat (plural eats)

1. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
   • 2011, William Chitty, ?Nigel Barker, ?Michael Valos, Integrated Marketing Communications (page 167)

     Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.

Anagrams

• -ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, ate, eta, tea, æt.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.at/, [?eät?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.at/, [????t?]

Verb

eat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of e?

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?ea?h(t)/

Verb

eat

1. first-person plural present of ii

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Pronoun

eat

1. something, anything

   Antonym: neat

Further reading

• “eat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pyo?ok, IPA^(key): /pju?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Etymology 1

1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pukan? (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), Old English sp?wan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.

Noun

puke (countable and uncountable, plural pukes)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
   • 2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber"

     the puke saber [...] pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"

2. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
   • 1776, Physician Lewis Beebe, Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician"

     "at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day."

3. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
4. (US, slang, derogatory, countable) A person from Missouri.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:vomit
• (person) rotter

Translations

Verb

puke (third-person singular simple present pukes, present participle puking, simple past and past participle puked)

1. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii.7

     At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms

2. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:regurgitate

Derived terms

• puker

Translations

Etymology 2

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Noun

puke (not comparable)

1. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
2. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

References

• wollencloth: Word Detective
• The Universal Dictionary of English, 1896, 4 vols: "Of a dark colour, said to be between black and russet."

Hawaiian

Etymology

Borrowed from English book.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu.ke/

Noun

puke

1. book

References

• Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian (compare Fijian buke, Malay bukit).

Noun

puke

1. (geography) hill

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse púki, from Proto-Germanic *p?kô.

Noun

p?ke m

1. devil, demon

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: puke, skråpuk

Tagalog

Noun

puke

1. vagina, female reproductive system.

Synonyms

• kiki