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Definition: Vomit |
VomitNoun1. The matter ejected in vomiting. 2. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting. 3. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth. 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. |
Date "vomit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of vomiting, is a sign that you will be afflicted with a malady which will threaten invalidism, or you will be connected with a racy scandal. To see others vomiting, denotes that you will be made aware of the false pretenses of persons who are trying to engage your aid. For a woman to dream that she vomits a chicken, and it hops off, denotes she will be disappointed in some pleasure by the illness of some relative. Unfavorable business and discontent are also predicted. If it is blood you vomit, you will find illness a hurried and unexpected visitor. You will be cast down with gloomy forebodings, and children and domesticity in general will ally to work you discomfort. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Multilingual Slang | Catalan (orxegar ), English (chuck), German (göbeln, kübeln, kotzen, reihern ), Hungarian (kitaccsolni, re'pakocka , ro'ka'zni), Swiss German (chörblä, chiisä ). (references) |
Slang | Chuck. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Vomiting or regurgitation is the sudden expulsion of vomit (the contents of the stomach) through the mouth. It is a mechanism for expelling ingested poisons, and may be triggered by stimuli which might indicate the possibility of poisoning, such as motion sickness, or sight of decayed food, or other people vomiting.The feeling that one is about to vomit is called nausea.
Human vomits can sometimes be used to identify illness, such as by examining the micro-fungus in the content.
Some Adult birds regurgitate food to feed their young. The food can be either incompletely digested or partially predigested, depending on the species.
Some bird species may also use regurgitation as a form of defense, vomiting when wounded or molested. When an intruder or a predator comes near a fulmar on its nest, the bird vomits oil up to 3 feet at the enemy.
Slang terms for vomiting: Throw up (phrasal verb), puke, barf, chunder, heave, boke, hurl, blow chunks, spew, upchuck.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vomit."
Synonyms: VomitSynonyms: disgorgement (n), emesis (n), emetic (n), nauseant (n), puking (n), regurgitation (n), vomiting (n), vomitive (n), vomitus (n), barf (v), 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 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: Vomit |
| English words defined with "vomit": aspiration pneumonia ♦ Belk, Bespew ♦ Emetical, Evomit ♦ gag ♦ heave ♦ Keck, Kecklish ♦ nauseated ♦ Parbreak ♦ Qualmish, queasy ♦ retch ♦ sick, sickbag, sickish ♦ To cast up, To heave up, To throw up ♦ Vomited, Vomito, Vomiturition ♦ Yellow atrophy, Yellow fever. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vomit": Cat Proverbs, chucks ♦ Flay a Fox, FLEA ♦ Renarder ♦ SHOOT THE CAT, Sick as a Horse ♦ TO CASCADE, TO CAT, To FLASH THE HASH, To FLAY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vomit": Vomica. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Why you little maggot, you make me want to vomit! (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) Didn't you notice on the plane when you started talking, eventually I started reading the vomit bag (Planes, Trains and Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes) If you tell me to turn my frown upside down, I swear I'm gonna vomit. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) These candidates make me want to vomit in terror (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You can't really dust for vomit. (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean) | |
Lyrics | There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dieu vomit les tièdes (1989) | |
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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. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Black tarry stools or blood in vomit. (references) | |
The acid in the vomit can hurt the teeth by corroding the tooth enamel. (references) | ||
Roll the person on his or her side to prevent choking on any fluids or vomit. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Nicaragua | Azucena Baltodano took her brother home, but he continued to vomit blood. (references) |
Nicaragua | The Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH), a nongovernmental organization (NGO), reported that he was arrested and brought to jail where police officers, particularly by officer Silvio Gutierrez, beat him so severely that he began to vomit blood. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vomit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Vomit" is used about 198 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) | 54.55% | 108 | 31,306 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 41.41% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.04% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 198 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vomit": black vomit ♦ vomit nut ♦ vomit up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vomit": vomit-filled, vomit-freak. | |
Ending with "vomit": binge-and-vomit, binge-vomit, mid-vomit. | |
Containing "vomit": binge-vomit syndrome. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
vomit | 496 | blow job vomit | 9 |
picture vomit | 34 | story vomit | 9 |
vomit fetish | 32 | blood vomit | 9 |
vomit sex | 32 | black vomit | 8 |
dog vomit | 31 | sound vomit | 8 |
video vomit | 29 | picture puke vomit | 8 |
vomit pic | 28 | pig vomit | 8 |
cat vomit | 27 | movie vomit | 8 |
puke vomit | 19 | bile dog vomit | 6 |
girl vomit | 19 | eating vomit | 6 |
scat vomit | 17 | piss scat vomit | 6 |
make vomit yourself | 17 | online vomit | 6 |
porn vomit | 15 | baby vomit | 6 |
dog fungus vomit | 14 | japan vomit | 6 |
blood in vomit | 13 | induce vomit | 6 |
remover vomit | 13 | vomit yellow | 6 |
fake vomit | 11 | clip vomit | 6 |
cum vomit | 10 | photo vomit | 5 |
comet vomit | 10 | rate vomit | 5 |
spit vomit | 9 | vomit wav | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "vomit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vjellje (eructation, retch, spew), vjellët (vomiting), vjell (belch, bring up, disgorge, eructate, puke, regorge, reject, spew, spue, void), të vjella (sickness, vomiting), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, whiffle), lëshoj shtëllungë, gufon (boil, eject, erupt, expel, heave, spout, spring, spurt). (various references) | |
Arabic | قىء (vomiting), 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, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate), تقيؤ (puke, vomiting), تقيأ (disgorge, gag, heave, puke, regurgitate, reject, retch, spew, throw up, upchuck), أخرج (bring out, direct, dispossess, draw out, egress, eject, fetch, get, give off, move out, obtrude, poke, produce, push along, quit, read out, realize, remove, set, shell off, subtract, take out). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бълвоч, бълвам (belch, erupt, spew, throw up), предизвиквам повръщане, причинявам повръщане, повърнато, повръщам (be sick, bring up, cat, disgorge, gulp up, puke, regorge, regurgitate, reject, sick up, throw up), изригвам (belch, eruct, erupt, shoot out, spew, spout, spue), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, whop). (various references) | |
Catalan | vomitar (throw up). (various references) | |
Chinese | ' (planet Jupiter), 呕吐 (spew, Spewed, Spewing, Vomited, Vomiting), "吐 , " , 吐 (to spit). (various references) | |
Czech | vyvrhovat, vrhnout (cast, puke, spew, thrust, toss), zvracet (be sick, fetch up, heave, retch, spew), zvracení (sickness), dávit (choke), dávidlo. (various references) | |
Danish | kaste op (throw up). (various references) | |
Dutch | spugen (spit, throw up), overgeven (convey, hand, hand over, pass, throw up), kotsen (throw up), braken (throw up). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vomi (throw up). (various references) | |
Faeroese | spýggja (throw up). (various references) | |
Farsi | هراشیدن , قی کردن (Cat, Regurgitate, Retch, Spew), استفراغ کردن (Disgorge), برگرداندن (Convert, Evoke, Rebut, Reflect, Refract, Regurgitate, Repay, Retort, Return, Reverse, Turquoise, Upset). (various references) | |
Finnish | oksentaa (throw up), oksennuttaa (throw up), oksennus (vomiting). (various references) | |
French | vomissure, vomir (void). (various references) | |
German | erbrechen (be sick, bring up, force, puke, regorge, regurgitate, regurgitation, sickness, throw up, upchuck), sich erbrechen (throw up), sich übergeben (be sick, throw up), erbreche. (various references) | |
Greek | κάνω εμετό (be sick, I puke my guts up, puke, throw up), ξερνώ (belch, puke, sick up, spew, spew forth, spue, throw up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפלוט (blurt, deliver, disgorge, eject, emit, escape, slip, spew, throw up), ל"קיא (disgorge, puke, spew, throw up, upchuck), קיא (puke, retch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | okádik (puke, to barf), hányás (pitching, puke, spew, vomiting), hány (how many, how many/much, how much, puke, threw, thrown, to barf, to be sick, to cat, to dump one's load, to puke, to shoot the cat, to sputter, to throw, to throw up, to vomit). (various references) | |
Icelandic | spýja (throw up). (various references) | |
Indonesian | muntahan, muntah (puke), memuntahkan (belch, disgorge, puke, spue). (various references) | |
Irish | aisig (restore; vomit). (various references) | |
Italian | vomitare (disgorge, retch, spew, throw, throw up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 吐出 (disgorge, spew). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | としゅつ (disgorge, spew). (various references) | |
Korean | 구 (Vomiting). (various references) | |
Malay | muntah (throw up). (various references) | |
Manx | tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, sling, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, void, vomiting), skeeah (spew), skeayrey, skeay. (various references) | |
Papiamen | saka (throw up), arohá (throw up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omitvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vomitar (belch, cat, disgorge, puke, regorge, regurgitate, reject, spew, spue, throw up). (various references) | |
Romanian | vomita (disgorge, fetch up, heave, puke, regorge, reject, spew, throw up), vãrsãturã (casting, eructation, vomiting), vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, infuse, outpour, pour forth, puke, regorge, shed, spew, spill, spout, tipple), deborda (gush, overflow), borî. (various references) | |
Russian | рвотное средство, рвотное (emetic, vomitive, vomitory), рвотная масса, рвота (puke, retch, retching, spew), тошнить (feel sick), блевотина. (various references) | |
Scottish | tilg (cast, cast out, fling, throw), sgeith (nf. g.+e; vomited matter, throw up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | povratiti (heave, reclaim, reproduce, restore, resume, retrieve), povraćati (puke, throw up), povraćanje (puke), izbljuvati (eructate, erupt, puke), izbljuvak (puke, vomitus). (various references) | |
Spanish | vomitar (bring up, disgorge, keep down, throw up), vómito (puke). (various references) | |
Sranan | fomeri (throw up). (various references) | |
Swedish | kräkas (be sick, cast up, chuck, puke, throw up), spy (be sick, cat, puke, spew, throw up, womit). (various references) | |
Turkish | püskürtmek (atomize, beat off, belch, dash, pulverization, pulverize, repel, repulse, spout, spray, spray on, squirt, vaporize), püskürtme (belching, repulse, rollback, spraying), lav püskürtmek, kusturan ilaç (emetic, vomitive, vomitory), kusmuk, kusmak (bring up, cast, disgorge, feed the fishes, heave, puke, reject, spew, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spue, spue forth, spue out, spue up, throw up, upchuck), kusma (puke, sickness, spew, throwing up, vomiting), istifrağ etmek (puke, spew, spue, throw up), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pitirdemek (crawl away), цgemek, gusmak (puke, throw up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | блювота (puke, retch), блювати (belch, cascade, keck, puke, retch, sick up, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chất nôn mửa ra thuốc mửa, chất l m nôn mửa. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyfogi, chwydu (spue), chwydiad, chwy+d. (various references) | |
Yucatec | xeh (throw up). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | eice, eicere, eicerent, eiceret, eiciam, eiciant, eiciat, eiciebant, eiciebat, eiciens, eicient, eicientem, eicientes, eicientur, eiciet, eicio, eicis, eicit, eicite, eicitur, eiciunt, eieceram, eiecerat, eiecerint, eiecero, eiecerunt, eieci, eiecimus, eiecique, eiecissent, eiecisset, eiecisti, eiecistis, eiecit, eiecitque, eiecta, eiectam, eiecti, eiectis, eiecto, eiectos, eiectum, vome, vomentis, vomere, vomerem, vomeres, vomitare, vomite, vomitu, vomitum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 11 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut canis qui revertitur ad vomitum suum sic inprudens qui iterat stultitiam suam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As an hound that tourneth ayeen to his vome; so an vnprudent man, that reherseth his folie. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Maingon sa usa ka iro nga nagabalik sa iyang sinuka, Ingon niana ang usa ka buang nga nagabalikbalik sa iyang binuang. |
| Chinese | 愚 昧 人 行 愚 妄 事 、 行 了 又 行 、 就 如 狗 轉 過 來 喫 所 吐 的 。 |
| Croatian | Bezumnik se vraæa svojoj ludosti kao što se pas vraæa na svoju bljuvotinu. |
| Danish | Som en Hund, der vender sig om til sit Spy, er en Tåbe, der gentager Dårskab. |
| Dutch | Gelijk een hond tot zijn uitspuwsel wederkeert, alzo herneemt de zot zijn dwaasheid. |
| Finnish | Kuin koira, joka palajaa oksennuksilleen, on tyhmä, joka yhä uusii hulluuksiansa. |
| French | Comme un chien qui retourne ce qu`il a vomi, Ainsi est un insensé qui revient sa folie. |
| German | Wie ein Hund sein Gespeites wieder frißt, also ist der Narr, der seine Narrheit wieder treibt. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Menm jan yon chen tounen vin manje sa li vonmi, se konsa moun san konprann yo ap toujou fè sa y'ap fè a. |
| Hungarian | Mint az eb megtér a maga okádására, úgy a bolond megkettõzteti az õ bolondságát. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Seperti anjing kembali kepada muntahnya, begitulah orang bodoh yang mengulangi kebodohannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seperti anjing balik makan muntahnya, demikianpun orang bodoh suka balik kepada bodohnya. |
| Italian | Come il cane torna al suo vomito, così lo stolto ripete le sue stoltezze. |
| Maori | ¶ Ka rite ki te kuri e hoki nei ki tona ruaki, te wairangi e tuarua ana i tona poauau. |
| Norwegian | Lik hunden som vender tilbake til sitt eget spy, er en dåre som kommer igjen med sin dårskap. |
| Portuguese | Como o cão que torna ao seu vômito, assim é o tolo que reitera a sua estultícia. |
| Rumanian | Cum se kntoarce cknele la ce a vqrsat, awa se kntoarce nebunul la nebunia lui. - |
| Russian | лБЛ ЕУ ЧПЪЧТБЭБЕФУС ОБ 'МЕЧПФЙОХ УЧПА, ФБЛ ЗМХ ЩК ПЧФПТСЕФ ЗМХ ПУФШ УЧПА. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vomit": vomited, vomiter, vomiters, vomiting, vomitive, vomitives, vomito, vomitories, vomitory, vomitos, vomitous, vomits, vomitus, vomituses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "vomit": bevomit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vomit": bevomited, bevomiting, bevomits. (additional references) | |
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"Vomit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fomite, Movita, ovit, somit, vami, vamic, vamid, vermit, vimi, vimid, vimt, vincit, vinit, voig, voij, voim, voip, voir, voit, Voith, voiu, voiz, vom, vomet, vomia, vomic, vommit, vont, votim. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vomit" (pronounced vÄ"mut) |
| 4 | -Ä" m u t | comet. |
| 3 | -m u t | animate, approximate, climate, consummate, illegitimate, inanimate, estimate, gamut, guesstimate, helmet, hermit, intimate, legitimate, limit, microclimate, plummet, proximate, summit, ultimate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: omit. | |
-2 letters: mot, tom, vim. | |
-3 letters: it, mi, mo, om, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: mikvot, motive, vomito, vomits. | |
+2 letters: bevomit, emotive, mikvoth, motived, motives, motivic, vicomte, vomited, vomiter, vomitos, vomitus. | |
+3 letters: bevomits, demivolt, mitsvoth, mitzvoth, monitive, motivate, motiving, motivity, overtime, overtrim, pivotman, pivotmen, vicomtes, voltaism, vomiters, vomiting, vomitive, vomitory, vomitous. | |
+4 letters: bevomited, combative, demivolts, emotively, emotivity, formative, leitmotiv, microvolt, millivolt, motivated, motivates, motivator, muscovite, normative, outmoving, overtimed, overtimes, overtrims, promotive, sovietism, voltaisms, vomitives, vomituses, vorticism. | |
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