From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puke \Puke\, noun A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puke \Puke\, adjective [Etymol. uncertain.] Of a color supposed to be between black and russet. --Shak.
Note: This color has by some been regarded as the same with puce; but Nares questions the identity.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puke \Puke\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Puked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puking}.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puke \Puke\, verb (used with an object) To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a 'git'" [syn: {rotter}, {dirty dog}, {rat}, {skunk}, {stinker}, {stinkpot}, {bum}, {crumb}, {lowlife}, {scum bag}, {so-and-so}, {git}]
2: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: {vomit}, {vomitus}]
verb
1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit up}, {purge}, {cast}, {sick}, {cat}, {be sick}, {disgorge}, {regorge}, {retch}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck}, {honk}, {regurgitate}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "puke": barf, be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast, cat, choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta, egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave, heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, louse, nausea, prick, regurgitate, regurgitation, reject, retch, scum, shit, shithead, shoot, sick up, sicken at, spew, stinkard, throw up, turd, upchuck, vomit, vomiting, vomition, wretch
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