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Definition: Barf |
BarfVerb1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. vi. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not. Examples: "The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old one." See choke, gag. In Commonwealth Hackish, `barf' is generally replaced by `puke' or `vom'. barf is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic variable, like foo or bar. Source: Jargon File. |
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Synonyms: BarfSynonyms: be sick (v), cast (v), cat (v), chuck (v), disgorge (v), honk (v), puke (v), regorge (v), regurgitate (v), retch (v), sick (v), spew (v), spue (v), throw up (v), upchuck (v), vomit (v), vomit up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: keep down (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina. |
Ejection | Vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god. |
Vomit, vomitus, puke, barf. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Barf |
| Specialty definitions using "barf": barfulation, barfulous ♦ cough and die ♦ JCL, Job Control Language. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Barf" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Cornish (beard), Welsh (barb, beard, whiskers). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The name's Barf. I'm a mog: half-man, half-dog (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Thomas Meehan) Then I'll be pretty much ready for barf. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf Well, that passed (Fargo; writing credit: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen) Yeah we did, but if you want any someones gonna have to barf it all up cuz' it's gone (Home Alone; writing credit: John Hughes) Like whale barf. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Barf (1999) | |
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 | Vomit; regurgitate; regurgitating; barf; be seasick; be sick; belch; bring up; disgorge; dry heave; emit; expel; gag; heave; hurl; keck; lose it; puke; regurgitate; retch; ruminate; spew; spit up; throw up; upchuck. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Barf" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Barf" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "barf": baud barf ♦ snarf & barf ♦ to barf. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "barf": Barf-o-rama, barf-worthy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
barf | 202 |
barf diet | 104 |
barf diet for dog | 23 |
barf dog food | 11 |
bag barf | 10 |
barf cat | 6 |
barf dog | 5 |
barf o rama | 5 |
barf story | 5 |
barf diet for cat | 3 |
barf diet recipe | 3 |
barf recipe | 3 |
barf iowa.com | 3 |
barf pic | 2 |
barf sound | 2 |
barf canine diet | 2 |
barf fake | 2 |
barf picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "barf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | dårligt trip (to barf). (various references) | |
Dutch | kotsen (throw up, vomit). (various references) | |
French | vomir* (to barf), rendre (get back, give back, pass back, pay back). (various references) | |
German | brechen (be sick, betray, break, bring up, crack, crack up, cut, fracture, heave up, infringe, overcome, pluck, quarry, reflect, refract, rive, rupture, spew, throw up, to crack, violate, vomit), sich erbrechen (throw up, vomit), sich übergeben (be sick, throw up, vomit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | undorító személy (barf-out), undorító hely (barf city), undorító dolog (barf-out), undorít vkit (to barf sy out), pfuj! (barf me out!, fie upon you!, fie!, hooey!), okádik (puke, to barf, vomit), okádék (barf city), lepratelep (barf city, hell-hole, leprosarium, leproserie, leprosery), kijön a belem! (barf me out!), kifordul a bele tőle (to barf sy out), hányadék (barf city, barf-out, glop, icky), elundorít vkit (to barf sy out). (various references) | |
Italian | vomitare (disgorge, retch, spew, throw, throw up, vomit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arfbay.(various references) | |
Russian | выражать недовольство/ недовольство, блевать (shoot the cat, spue). (various references) | |
Spanish | vomitar (bring up, disgorge, keep down, throw up, vomit), marearse (feel dizzy, feel sick, sicken). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barf": barfed, barfing, barflies, barfly, barfs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-r" | |
-1 letter: arb, arf, bar, bra, far. | |
-2 letters: ab, ar, ba, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-r" | |
+1 letter: barfs. | |
+2 letters: barfed, barfly, fabler, fabric, ferbam, forbad, prefab. | |
+3 letters: abfarad, baffler, barefit, barfing, bedwarf, bifilar, fablers, fabrics, fabular, fatbird, ferbams, fibroma, fibular, fimbria, forbade, forbear, forebay, friable, prefabs. | |
+4 letters: abfarads, afebrile, backfire, bafflers, balefire, barefoot, barflies, basifier, bedframe, bedwarfs, biforate, birdfarm, boarfish, farmable, fatbirds, faubourg, fibranne, fibrilla, fibromas, fimbriae, fimbrial, fireable, fireback, fireball, firebase, fireboat, firebrat, flabbier, forbears, forbidal, fordable, forebays, forebear, forkball, formable, frabjous, framable, freebase, furlable, reefable, subframe, surfable, surfboat, turbofan. | |
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