Did you perchance mean bard?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Slang To vomit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as bargh.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. the matter ejected in vomiting
- v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Etymologies
- Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin. (Wiktionary)
- Probably imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We mixed it up in a meausureing cup (the hotdog had to be kind of mushed up first * barf, barf*) and poured it into a shot glass which we passed around and had to take a drink out of it.”
“Now my hot pocket is in barf form and all over the keyboard. freemachine”
“So when I step in barf, or someone pukes right on my face, like Curly Girl did the other night, I wind up thinking oh yuck but that’s usually pretty much overshadowed by how panicked and paranoid I feel afterwards.”
“Well, since it's Oprah country, I'd say it tastes like old fish marinated in barf.”
“Designed like a flashlight, this light saber (also dubbed a barf beamer and a puke saber) is intended to totally incapacitate its targets by emitting multiple light frequencies and colors that confuse the brain, resulting in symptoms ranging from discomfort and disorientation to temporary blindness and nausea.”
John W. Whitehead: Compliance Weapons: One Step Closer to a Police State?
“To commemorate the mega-non-event, graphic designer Lydia Leith has created "sick bags" - yes, the bags that airline passengers in the U.S. commonly refer to as "barf bags.”
“To go off on a linguistic tangent, in Farsi the word for snow is pronounced "barf".”
“There is a brand of soap and detergent produced in Iran that has "barf" as its label.”
“That second to last picture is just 'barf' but I'm not sure why ...”
“The problem with the Free Republic is being a hyper-patriot and using "barf" as your reaction to everything.”
Chris Kelly: Free Republic Brings You the News (BARF ALERT!)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barf’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Ar!
ar, Ar, argon, are, area, arf, arc, ark, aardwolf, aardvark, aardcucumber, yardarm and 253 more...
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Vomit
euphemisms for vomiting
hurl, barf, puke, shooting salad, technicolor yawn, praying to the po..., shouting groceries, tossing your cookies, blowing chunks, calling Ralph on ..., speaking in tongu..., howling at the po... and 31 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Joshee Word List
gash, engross, entail, stoke, ode, vacillate, aspersion, asperity, clan, kith, prospect, nag and 229 more...
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verbs
deprecate, behold, bemoan, circumscribe, circumspect, pivot, discombobulate, rummage, chasten, chastise, undulate, snog and 122 more...
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Least Favorite Words
blog, painterly, choicest, evildoer, perpetrator, murmur, gab, schmooze, macerate, feeble, lusty, boobs and 72 more...
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The Flu
influenza, puke bowl, barf, hurl, moan, death wish, ginger ale, popsicle, sputum, gag, kleenex, projectile vomit and 18 more...
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Words Kristine hates
I gotta remember these.
moist, date, baste, *anything in betw..., fart, barf, puke, fingerbanging, kris, burp, loin, pregnant and 1 more...
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The Art Of Ejection
Vomit words, both method and substance.
vomit, barf, chunder, throw, toss, upchuck, technicolour yawn, speak on the grea..., bark, spew, puke, burp bits and 75 more...
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False Friends
"False Friend" is a linguistic term for words that appear in more than one language, but with entirely different meanings. They can cause a lot of problems for the unwary tourist.
kill, fatal, lawman, sky, city, slut, alone, bless, fart, bog, arse, turd and 39 more...
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Ugly Words
Words that I think sound "ugly" or have an "ugly" connotation.
vomit, wart, grime, sludge, puke, mulch, drudge, garbage, secrete, puss, zit, membrane and 9 more...
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Least Favorites
choicest, sassafras, vomit, amorous, testes, agrarian, egregious, lactate, pus, crotchety, cul-de-sac, precipice and 74 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for barf.
MIRIAMKELLYDUNCAN to vomit or toss your cookies Sep 15, 2011
bilby I like release at the bottom of that list. It's very demure, in a Britsh kind of way.
- How was your evening at the gentleman's club, Withers?
+ Capital. After several hours of conviviality I found considerable release. Sep 14, 2011
bilby Words that are found in similar contexts
Gladstone
sand
gunny
wash-leather
5-pound
duffle
colostomy
goodie
glassine
kapok
soundbite
soft-sided
a1-quart
musette
resealable
empath
toiletry
kraft
release
Sep 14, 2011
yarb dontcry horking like it's 1999 Sep 10, 2010
dontcry *HORK* Sep 10, 2010
ruzuzu *Hahork* Sep 6, 2010
bilby *throws barfball at frogapplause* Sep 6, 2010
frogapplause The word in Persian for "snow" does not sound like "barf" (to throw up.)
Listen to pronunciation.
Sep 6, 2010
tbtabby Means "snow" in Farsi. Sep 6, 2010
whichbe Bark + Arf Oct 23, 2008