Ralph

Q: What is a synonym for "ralph"?

Common synonyms include: bow down before the porcelain god, cast, chuck, drive the porcelain bus, heave, hurl.

//ɹælf// name, noun, verb, slang

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Definitions

Noun

1
A raven. UK, obsolete, regional

Verb

1
To vomit. slang

Proper Noun

1
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
"There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory: / The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly"
2
A surname originating as a patronymic.
3
Fictional person used in references to vomiting. slang
"He's outside calling Ralph [i.e. vomiting]."
4
An unincorporated community in Harding County, South Dakota, United States.
5
An unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia, United States.

Synonyms

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bow down before the porcelain god cast chuck drive the porcelain bus heave hurl

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"As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, "language is fossil poetry"."

Etymology

Etymology 1

US 1960s, of uncertain origin, apparently derived from a use of the male name Ralph, but perhaps imitative.

Etymology 2

From Middle English Radulf, from Old English Rǣdwulf (also as Raulf), from Proto-West Germanic *Rādawulf, from Proto-Germanic *Rēdawulfaz. Reinforced by similar forms brought to England, e.g. Old Norse Ráðúlfr, then in the Norman form Old French Radulf, Radulph. For the sense relating to vomiting, see ralph.

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