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Definition: Puke |
PukeNoun1. 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!". 2. The matter ejected in vomiting. Verb1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | French (gerber ). (references) |
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Synonyms: PukeSynonyms: bum (n), crumb (n), lowlife (n), rat (n), rotter (n), scum bag (n), skunk (n), so-and-so (n), stinker (n), stinkpot (n), vomit (n), vomitus (n), barf (v), be sick (v), cast (v), cat (v), chuck (v), disgorge (v), honk (v), regorge (v), regurgitate (v), retch (v), sick (v), spew (v), spue (v), throw up (v), upchuck (v), vomit up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: keep down (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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: Puke |
| English words defined with "puke": Puked. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puke": stack puke. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "puke": Puck. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I say puke. If you hurl and she comes back, she's yours (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner. Based on the sketch from Saturday Night Live.) If I didn't have puke breath, I'd kiss you. (Strange Brew; writing credit: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, screenplay by Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas and Steve De Jarnatt.) This tea would make a brontosaurus puke. (The Beiderbecke Affair; writing credit: Alan Plater) Whenever I'm in a room with a guy, no matter who it is--a date my dentist, anybody--I think, If we were the last two people on Earth, would I puke if he kissed me (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies) To eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) | |
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| "Motion Discomfort" by Brian Dimarucot Commentary: "View of a puke bag just before a "disaster" ." |
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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. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Tori Amos | Women must understand that simply attacking or hating all men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power. All it will do is make her puke eventually. Rather than say--all men are bastards-- let's say--all men are infants, until they decide to be men--Calling them bastards is boring at this stage. |
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| "Puke" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "Puke" is used about 45 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 53.33% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 35.56% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.89% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "puke": puke over ♦ stack puke. Additional references. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
puke | 118 | puke puker pukes puking | 5 |
puke sex | 25 | cock puke | 5 |
girl puke | 20 | puke story | 5 |
puke vomit | 19 | n puke vomit | 5 |
picture puke | 19 | make puke yourself | 5 |
pic puke | 19 | princess puke | 4 |
puke video | 18 | gag puke | 4 |
deep puke throat | 16 | mpeg puke | 4 |
cum puke | 16 | her make puke | 4 |
blow job puke | 14 | puke sex vomit | 4 |
puke snot | 10 | gay puke | 4 |
hardcore max puke | 9 | fetish puke vomit | 3 |
porn puke | 8 | photo puke | 3 |
picture puke vomit | 8 | hunter puke | 3 |
puke sound | 7 | puke suck | 3 |
puke scat | 7 | cat puke | 3 |
movie puke | 6 | club puke | 3 |
fetish puke | 6 | drunk puke | 3 |
guy puke | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "puke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vjell (belch, bring up, disgorge, eructate, regorge, reject, spew, spue, void, vomit), e vjellë. (various references) | |
Arabic | قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), تقيؤ (vomit, vomiting), تقيأ (disgorge, gag, heave, regurgitate, reject, retch, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit), شخص مثير للإحتقار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | повръщане (nausea, sickness, vomiting), повръщам (be sick, bring up, cat, disgorge, gulp up, regorge, regurgitate, reject, sick up, throw up, vomit). (various references) | |
Czech | vrhnout (cast, spew, thrust, toss, vomit), dávit se (choke up, Keck, spew). (various references) | |
Farsi | قی , استفراغ , ابی سیر, بالااوردن (Nauseate). (various references) | |
French | salaud, faire vomir, dégueulis, dégueuler. (various references) | |
German | spucken (be sick, bring up, spew, spit, splutter, throw up, to spit, vomit), reihern (spew up), kotzen (be sick, upchuck), kotze (vomit), erbrechen (be sick, bring up, force, regorge, regurgitate, regurgitation, sickness, throw up, upchuck, vomit). (various references) | |
Greek | κάνω εμετό (be sick, I puke my guts up, throw up, vomit), ξερνώ (belch, sick up, spew, spew forth, spue, throw up, vomit), εξεμώ (disgorge, regurgitate, spew, spue, throw up), εμώ (spue), εμετόσ (nausea). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להקיא (disgorge, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit), קיא (retch, vomit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hányás (pitching, spew, vomit, vomiting), sötét szín, okádás, kékes szín, hánytatószer (emetic, vomitive, vomitory), hánytató (emetic, vomitory), finom gyapjúanyag, barnás szín. (various references) | |
Indonesian | muntah (vomit), memuntahkan (belch, disgorge, spue, vomit). (various references) | |
Italian | vomito (belch, sick, sickness, vomit, vomitus), rigettare (reject, throw again). (various references) | |
Manx | ceau neose (deprecate, fling down, malign, throw down). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ukepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vomitar (belch, cat, disgorge, regorge, regurgitate, reject, spew, spue, throw up, vomit), vômito (belch, spew, vomit). (various references) | |
Romanian | vomitat, vomita (disgorge, fetch up, heave, regorge, reject, spew, throw up, vomit), vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, infuse, outpour, pour forth, regorge, shed, spew, spill, spout, tipple, vomit). (various references) | |
Russian | рвота (retch, retching, spew, vomit), рвать (belch, gather, pick, rend, retch, rip, shoot the cat, tear, torn, upchuck), тошнить блевотина. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | povraćati (throw up, vomit), povraćanje (vomit), izbljuvati (eructate, erupt, vomit), izbljuvak (vomit, vomitus), bljuvati (belch, disgorge, spue), bljuvanje (eructation, spew). (various references) | |
Spanish | vómito (vomit). (various references) | |
Swedish | spya (vomit), spy (be sick, cat, spew, throw up, vomit, womit), kräkning (vomit), kräkas (be sick, cast up, chuck, throw up, vomit). (various references) | |
Turkish | kusturmak (gag, make sick, regurgitate, spew, spue, turn up), kusmak (bring up, cast, disgorge, feed the fishes, heave, reject, spew, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spue, spue forth, spue out, spue up, throw up, upchuck, vomit), kusma (sickness, spew, throwing up, vomit, vomiting), istifrağ etmek (spew, spue, throw up, vomit). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gusmak (throw up, vomit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | блювотне, блювота (retch, vomit), блювати (belch, cascade, keck, retch, sick up, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nôn mửa (sickness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puke": puked, pukes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puke" (pronounced pyuw"k) |
| 3 | -y uw" k | rebuke. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-p-u" | |
-1 letter: kep, kue, uke. | |
-2 letters: pe, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-p-u" | |
+1 letter: puked, pukes. | |
+2 letters: makeup, peruke, pucker, punker, punkey, punkie, takeup, unkept, upkeep, uptake. | |
+3 letters: breakup, checkup, cupcake, cuplike, kajeput, ketchup, kouprey, makeups, muspike, outkeep, outkept, peruked, perukes, plucked, plucker, plunked, plunker, predusk, puckers, puckery, punkers, punkest, punkeys, punkier, punkies, puslike, seppuku, shakeup, spelunk, spunked, spunkie, takeups, unkempt, unspeak, unspoke, upkeeps, uptakes. | |
+4 letters: breakups, checkups, cupcakes, kajeputs, kerplunk, ketchups, keypunch, koupreys, muspikes, outkeeps, outspeak, outspoke, penuckle, pluckers, pluckier, plumlike, plunkers, predusks, puckered, puckerer, pumplike, punkiest, pusslike, seppukus, shakeups, shunpike, spelunks, spunkier, spunkies, turnpike, unpacked, unpacker, unpicked, unpucker, unspeaks, unspoken, upmarket, upstroke. | |
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