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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:
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:
Classified under:
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)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they puke ... he / she / it pukes
Past simple: puked
Past participle: puked
-ing form: puking
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)
