different between vomit vs vom

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

Clipping of vomit.

Noun

vom (uncountable)

1. (informal) vomit

Verb

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

1. (informal) vomit
   • 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle (page 185)

     Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.

   • 2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer

     Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp^[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.

Anagrams

• MOV, OMV, mov.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vomu, zvom, zvomu

Etymology

From Latin vom?. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

vom (third-person singular present indicative voami/voame, past participle vumutã)

1. I vomit.

Related terms

• voamiri / voamire, vumeari / vumeare, vumeri
• vumut

See also

• versu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse v?mb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?m/, [v?m?]

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

1. belly
2. paunch

Declension

Derived terms

• vommet

Further reading

• “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Pronunciation

Contraction

vom (+ adjective ending with -em + masculine or neuter noun)

1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Vaamb, Vomb, vomb

Etymology

From Old Norse v?mb, from Proto-Germanic *wamb? (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.

Noun

vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly

Inflection

References

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vom]

Verb

(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

1. (we) will

   Vom lua prânzul la ora dou?sprezece.

   We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom)

Noun

vom (nominative plural voms)

1. woman (adult female human)

Declension

Hypernyms

• men
• nim

Coordinate terms

• man

Derived terms