different between vomit vs chunder

English

Etymology

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomit?re, present active infinitive of vomit? (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vom? (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh?- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: v?m'it, IPA^(key): /?v?m?t/
• Rhymes: -?m?t
• (US) enPR: v?m'it, IPA^(key): /?v?m?t/

Verb

vomit (third-person singular simple present vomits, present participle vomiting, simple past and past participle vomited)

1. (intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

   • The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

2. (transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
   • 1988, Angela Carter, ‘Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 713:

     It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.

3. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45-46]:

     "Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.

   • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• vomitable

Translations

Noun

vomit (usually uncountable, plural vomits)

1. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
2. The act of regurgitating.
3. (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:vomit.

Translations

Derived terms

• vomit comet

See also

• emetic

French

Verb

vomit

1. third-person singular present indicative of vomir
2. third-person singular past historic of vomir

Latin

Verb

vomit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of vom?

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vo?mit]

Verb

vomit

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of vomita

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?t?and?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?t??nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: chun?der

Etymology 1

Unknown and debated origin [c. 1950]. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not recorded. The derivation from some supposed nautical phrase "*Watch under!", used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, is wholly unsubstantiated and likely folk etymology. Also possibly from some dialectal pronunciation of thunder.

Noun

chunder (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Vomit. [from 1950.]
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An act of vomiting.
3. Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:vomit

Translations

Verb

chunder (third-person singular simple present chunders, present participle chundering, simple past and past participle chundered)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To throw up, to vomit.
   • 2008, Isabelle Young, Tony Gherardin, Central and South America, Lonely Planet, page 70,

     There are plenty of winding roads, diesel fumes, crowded public transport and various less than sweet odours to get you chundering when you?re on the move in this part of the world, so take a good supply of motion sickness remedies if you know you?re susceptible to this.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:regurgitate

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps by confusion with chunter.

Verb

chunder (third-person singular simple present chunders, present participle chundering, simple past and past participle chundered)

1. Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.

Anagrams

• churned, duncher, runched