puke

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"Fish puke is a thing of the past, " he'd tell Marcel.

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  1. intransitive and transitive verb To vomit.
  2. noun The act of vomiting.
  3. noun Vomit.
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  • I mentioned Yeakel's DMV contacts -- a temp license trace might be possible. —  Hollywood Nocturne
  • The pillow and his face were all covered in thick yellowish puke -- no wonder it had smelled so bad. —  Clean Kill
  • He was kneeling in his own puke, his eyes and nose running the way they did after a violent heave, and the only thought caught in his mind was that he was going to do it again. —  Salem Falls
  • "Fish puke is a thing of the past, " he'd tell Marcel. —  La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
  • "Ghastly piece o 'puke, ain't it?" —  The Moment Of The Magician
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Perhaps imitative.

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  1. Origin obscure; perhaps for *spuke or *speuk, extended form of spew. Cf. German spucken, spit.
  2. from puke, v.
  3. Formerly also pewke; from Middle English puke; apparently an unassibilated form of puce.
 

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