Definitions
Etymologies
- Recorded from 1950. Probably from the cartoon character Chunder Loo of Akim Foo, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s. Some sources hold that Chunder Loo was rhyming slang for spew, but the usage is not recorded. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Creative new words for vomit became fashionable, as "chunder"and liquid laughs became the norm.”
“(He also whipped up the "chunder" used in the vomiting scenes.)”
“chunder" or "drongo," do you realize their capacity to melt the hearts of American girls is a dangerous weapon.”
“Charlie: crack, cocaine chips: french fries chunder: to throw up ciggy: cigarette claret: blood (They were copping it up, claret all over the place!) cop a feel: to feel someone up to cop it: to get in trouble copper: policeman”
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“You know, “chunder bucket” must be a South African thing, because I have never heard that phrase, but I have no trouble at all translating it into USA english.”
“There is an almost endless stream of Con loving chunder heads with their hackles all raised, swearing up and down that this is desperation.”
“Sure, I get way worse in my inbox all the time, but our little friend from New England is so publically chunder-headed that even the conservatives avoid him at the virtual lunchtable.”
“The stench from the cans still prompt a gagging response that used to urge me towards the nearest chunder vessel.”
“All these "catchy" lines like "You graduated with honours from your best friend's funeral" just made me want to chunder.”
“As befits the classical conceit, Mark even beats up the entire Birmingham Symphonic over the big beat chunder of 'The Crying Marshal'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chunder’.
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NTDW2
yawp, amidships, smug, jounce, fallow, conscionable, polyp, whit, nouveau riche, palatial, encomiastic, exchequer and 182 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, semprini, twaddle, plethora, enteron and 29 more...
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Auslang
Australian colloquialisms, slang and unique lingual artifacts.
bludger, strewth, shonky, cow cockie, sickie, woop woop, chunder, furphy, buckley's chance, whinge, root barrier, nuff nuff and 8 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Remember all of them!?
floordrobe, pac-manning, wenis, pre-pull, myspy, bluetool, cupcaking, linner, infoporn, bricked, peasantvision, nillionaire and 85 more...
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Superfluoshu -1
wrangle, plurality, ersatz, dongle, melancholia, mephistophelian, wurlitzer, mangonel, weeaboo, non-euclidean, chunder, whosawhatsit and 4 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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le mot juste
minikin, skosh, fulgent, nimiety, flense, peridot, camorra, dottle, alizarin, chunder, cree, umami and 10 more...
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Magic or Madness
Words from the glossaries in the back of the novels.
ambo, arse, bickie, biscuit, bloke, boong, bottlebrush, bronze medallion, bugger, bunyip, cardie, chips and 79 more...
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Australiana
quokka, wombat, numbat, bonzer, grouse, woop woop, not the full quid, zac, mate, koala, chunder, vegemite and 49 more...
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For Faulkner Lovers
Or anybody else studying his works, especially The Bear.
immobile, absolve, temerity, abject, effluvium, daube, lambent, attrition, moil, relinquish, evanescent, dissolution and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chunder.
bilby Far away from me. Apr 28, 2009
madmouth very sad no one's listed chunder blunder. Where can I put it? Apr 28, 2009
bilby Great pleth! Jul 31, 2008
plethora I had a friend once who, as revenge for always being the one supporting people while they horked their guts up, developed her own little ditty:
Chunderstruck! Yeah, yeah, yeah, chunderstruck! Jul 31, 2008
sionnach Use it in a sentence. How about: "The atmosphere at the reception chilled noticeably when one of the groomsmen chundered all over the bride's dress, a ravishing rumchunder concoction with an apparently unlimited ability to absorb chyme and chunderchunks alike". Feb 16, 2007