Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin vomitōrium ("entrance to an amphitheatre"), substantive of vomitōrius ("emetic", "provoking vomiting"), from vomō ("vomit"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“However, having just looked up the word vomitorium in the Latin dictionary, I find that after all it does not mean a place where you went to be sick after dinner.”
“Caligula would throw an epic orgy and then pay a visit to the vomitorium.”
“Unlike Steyn she considers this a good thing as it will get rid of the moral vomitorium called Europe.”
“And let me tell you, as the people who invented the vomitorium, we Romans know something about having fun.”
The Huffington Post: Clay Farris Naff: Keep Saturn in Saturnalia!
“We'll need an old fashioned Roman vomitorium after that one.”
Hagel: Commutation "Unfortunate"; Smith: "I Don't Know What Happened Here"
“Go puke at the vomitorium with your Toronto friends in Toronto.”
“After the bacchanal somebody is left cleaning up the vomitorium.”
“Dymphna's Road: gay marriage, welcome to the vomitorium skip to main”
“I moved your vomitorium post to my blog and have generated some good conversation!”
“I am trying to, but just when I start to think sensible, classically-liberal, fair-minded, reality-based discourse is asserting itself, I see Steyn's and Shaidle's and Yoshida's name over there and I'm sent, once again, rushing to the vomitorium.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vomitorium’.
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nschotten's list
A list of words.
fecundity, atavistic, steatopygous, demiurge, sufflaminandus, occiput, trenchant, hobnails, soft-pedal, parsimony, fatuous, ratiocination and 28 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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QI words
tongue-pad, jigger, haptodysphoria, vomitorium, tmesis, philtrum, callipygian, zopissa, borborygmus
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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Illuminated Manuscript
words for the bespoke
midheaven, moth-fly, yea-forsooth, ontil, coxcomb, vulnerary, landhelgisgæslan, beasthood, deviltry, triolet, diablerie, titil and 107 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
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tez's Words
tain, curlicue, eidolon, exoteric, puissant, ragamuffin, insouciant, yarrow, taciturn, mundane, vomitorium, tenebre and 140 more...
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jimmynewland's Words
steganography, incunabulum, dog days, geekhood, risorgimento, ab initio, slugabed, humanism, diddly-squat, doch-an-dorris, snickersnee, rictus and 198 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Hit list
vomitorium, fainthearted, bigotry, clusterfuck, time, crepuscular, upchuck, unbosomed, buffoon, omnibus, zealot, crime and 21 more...
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prakash's Words
omphaloskepsis, eleemosynary, pogonotomy, pogonotrophy, zenzizenzizenzic, cerumen, abiogenesis, zymurgy, syzygy, deuteranopia, agathokakological, vomitorium and 28 more...
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SLH's Words
omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, vomitorium, gerrymander, draconian, juxtapositions, tacit, surreptitiously, missives, pusillanimity, ersatz and 12 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
Tweets
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aurelia From the Roman amphitheatres, the entrance corridors between the seating risers.
In modern theatres, aisles thru the seating area that lead to the stage. (aka voms) Jun 9, 2009