different between puke vs zuke

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

English

Etymology

Shortening. Compare cuke.

Pronunciation

Noun

zuke (plural zukes)

1. (US, colloquial) Zucchini.
   • 2005, Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook

     But please use tender young squash. The zuke someone overlooked in the garden until it was the size of a rolling pin will be too bitter for this casserole.

   • 2009, Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy

     By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers […]