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Chunder

//ˈtʃandə// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Vomit. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable

    "I had puke streamers hanging from both nostrils; it wasn′t as watery as my chunder usually is (from drinking)."

  2. 2
    An act of vomiting. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable

    "I would guess it points up the difference between the involuntary chunder where you cannot choose the time place or direction, and the self-induced chunder which facilitates further consumption of alcohol after your theoretical limit is reached."

  3. 3
    Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption. Australia, British, New-Zealand, slang

    "I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder / Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? / You better run, you better take cover"

  2. 2
    Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.

    "The truck chundered and rattled."

  3. 3
    To grumble, complain. New-England

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

Perhaps by confusion with chunter.

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