different between vomit vs keck

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

• IPA^(key): /k?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Imitative. Compare German köken (“to vomit”).

Verb

keck (third-person singular simple present kecks, present participle kecking, simple past and past participle kecked)

1. (intransitive) To retch or heave as if to vomit.
   • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy

     The faction (is it not notorious?)>br>Keck at the memory of Glorious:

Derived terms

• keckish

Translations

Etymology 2

Celtic.

Noun

keck (uncountable)

1. (dialectal) The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).

Etymology 3

From Manx keck (“shit”)

Noun

keck (uncountable)

1. (Isle of Man) animal dung

References

• 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect (page 98).

German

Etymology

From Middle High German quec, from Old High German quec, from Proto-West Germanic *kwik(k)w, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?ih?wós (“alive”).

Doublet of quick, which is from Low German. Cognate with Dutch kwiek, English quick; further with Latin v?vus, Russian ????? (živoj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Adjective

keck (comparative kecker, superlative am kecksten)

1. sassy; cheeky (bold and spirited)

Declension

Derived terms

• Keckheit

Related terms

• Quecksilber
• quick
• erquicken

Descendants

• Dutch: kek
• Danish: kæk
• Norwegian: kjekk
• Swedish: käck

Further reading

• “keck” in Duden online

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), from Proto-Celtic *kakk?, from Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (“to shit”).

Noun

keck m (genitive singular keck, plural keckyn)

1. faeces, excrement, defecation
2. droppings
3. dung, ordure
4. (vulgar) shit, crap

Interjection

keck

1. (vulgar) Shit!, Fuck!, Crap!

Etymology 2

From Old Irish caccaid (“excretes”, verb), from cacc (“dung, excrement”).

Verb

keck (verbal noun keckey, past participle keckit)

1. excrete, defecate
2. (vulgar) shit, crap

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