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noun
vomit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, uncountable
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noun
A drug that induces vomiting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable
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noun
A worthless, despicable person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable
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noun
A person from Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, derogatory, slang
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noun
A fine grade of woolen cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, colloquial
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verb
To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
Topics: business, finance
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noun
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unpleasant person, disagreeable person
noun
the matter ejected in vomiting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: vomit, vomitus, barf
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product
verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
History
Probably imitative; or, alternatively related to Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then related to German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”), Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), and Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew. Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Across languages
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