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Puke

verb
(past & past part. puked; pres. part. puking)
1.
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up.  "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
noun
1.
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.  Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot.  "Kill the rat" , "Throw the bum out" , "You cowardly little pukes!" , "The British call a contemptible person a 'git'"
2.
The matter ejected in vomiting.  Synonyms: barf, vomit, vomitus.






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"Puke" Quotes from Famous Books



... to sit an' swallow, [not that] Then like a swine to puke an' wallow; But gie me just a true guid fellow [give] Wi' right ingine, [wit] And spunkie ance to mak us mellow, [liquor ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... like to sit an' swallow, [not that] Then like a swine to puke an' wallow; But gie me just a true guid fellow [give] Wi' right ingine, [wit] And spunkie ance to mak us mellow, [liquor enough] An' then ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... Ed-d N-g-e. His present majesty is not less fond of a pleasant joke than his laughter-loving predecessor, Charles II. The Puke of Clarence, while at the Pavilion (a short time since), admired a favourite grey pony of Sir E-d N-e's; in praise of whose qualities the baronet was justly liberal. After the party had returned to the palace, the duke, in concert with the k-g, slily gave directions ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... hope he isn't. It's enough to make a body puke up his boots to hear Davenport, and I don't much blame Holden for ...
— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams

... practical, that Soul is not synonymous with Stomach; who understand, therefore, in our Friend's words, "that, for man's well-being, Faith is properly the one thing needful; how, with it, Martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, Worldlings puke up their sick existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury:" to such it will be clear that, for a pure moral nature, the loss of his religious Belief was the loss of everything. Unhappy young man! All wounds, the crush of long-continued Destitution, ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle

... divisions: 26 districts (rrethe, singular - rreth); Berat, Dibre, Durres, Elbasan, Fier, Gjirokaster, Gramsh, Kolonje, Korce, Kruje, Kukes, Lezhe, Librazhd, Lushnje, Mat, Mirdite, Permet, Pogradec, Puke, Sarande, Shkoder, Skrapar, ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency



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