different between vomit vs pukey

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

Etymology

puke +? -y

Adjective

pukey (comparative pukier, superlative pukiest)

1. (informal) Resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.
   • 2007, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, Foreign Exposure: The Social Climber Abroad:

     The walls in this abandoned waiting area were painted a pukey orange, compounding the feeling of queasiness I'd had since breakfast.

2. (informal) Inclined to vomit; sick.
   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

     His heart was thumping harder than ever, and it was impossible to tell if the sickish, pukey feeling deep down in his belly was relief or terror.

   • 2005, Rebecca Eckler, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be:

     There's no way he'd allow a dog on his couch or on his 500-thread-count sheets, let alone a pukey baby.

3. (informal) Vile; contemptible.
   • 2003, Guy Davenport, The Death of Picasso:

     He called Mikkel a pukey little faggot. I'll kick him again when I can get at him.

   • 2007, Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium:

     […] it's nothing more than a pukey little garrison town in the middle of nowhere.

Translations

Anagrams

• key up