/ English Dictionary

PUKE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

Example:

the British call a contemptible person a 'git'

Synonyms:

bum; crumb; dirty dog; git; lowlife; puke; rat; rotter; scum bag; skunk; so-and-so; stinker; stinkpot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("puke" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The matter ejected in vomiting

Synonyms:

barf; puke; vomit; vomitus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("puke" is a kind of...):

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)

Derivation:

puke (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Synonyms:

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "puke" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

puke (the matter ejected in vomiting)

puking (the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

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