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noun
Vomit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
An act of vomiting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang
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verb
Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.
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verb
To grumble, complain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-England
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History
Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950.
Perhaps by confusion with chunter.
Across languages
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