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Puke

//pjuːk// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    vomit. colloquial, uncountable

    "2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber" the puke saber … pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting""

  2. 2
    A fine grade of woolen cloth. uncountable

    "Puke-stocking caddis garter"

  3. 3
    a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible wordnet
  4. 4
    A drug that induces vomiting. colloquial, countable

    ""at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day.""

  5. 5
    A very dark, dull, brownish-red color. uncountable
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  1. 6
    the matter ejected in vomiting wordnet
  2. 7
    A worthless, despicable person. colloquial, countable
  3. 8
    A person from Missouri. US, countable, derogatory, slang

    ""Pukes" and "suckers" had badly mauled the Saints, the first pummeling them from Missouri and the second from Illinois."

Verb
  1. 1
    To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. ambitransitive, colloquial

    "Unfortunately, he could not hold it long enough till the end of the ride, so he puked on the bus seat."

  2. 2
    eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth wordnet
  3. 3
    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. intransitive, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably imitative; or, alternatively from Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), 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.

Etymology 2

Probably imitative; or, alternatively from Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), 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.

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