puke

• enPR: pyo͞ok, IPA^(key): /pjuːk/

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• Rhymes: -uːk

Probably imitative; or, alternatively from Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.

Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

puke (countable and uncountable, plural pukes)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
   • 2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber"

     the puke saber [...] pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"

2. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
   • 1776, Physician Lewis Beebe, Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician"

     "at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day."

3. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
4. (US, slang, derogatory, countable) A person from Missouri.
   • 2009, Clive Scott Chisholm, Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream:

     "Pukes" and "suckers" had badly mauled the Saints, the first pummeling them from Missouri and the second from Illinois.

• See Thesaurus:vomit
• (person) rotter

puke (third-person singular simple present pukes, present participle puking, simple past and past participle puked)

1. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:

     At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms

2. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.

• See Thesaurus:regurgitate
• vomit
• barf
• spew
• throw up
• spew up

• puker

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puke (uncountable)

1. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     Puke-stocking caddis garter

2. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

• wollencloth: Word Detective
• The Universal Dictionary of English, 1896, 4 vols: "Of a dark colour, said to be between black and russet."
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Borrowed from English book.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ke/, [ˈpuke]

puke

1. book

• Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian (compare Fijian buke, Malay bukit).

puke

1. (geography) hill

puke

1. Alternative form of pouke

From Old Norse púki, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô.

pūke m

1. devil, demon

• Swedish: puke; ⇒ skråpuk

• poqui, puqui – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• puki

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

• Hyphenation: pu‧ke
• IPA^(key): /ˈpuke/, [ˈpu.xe]
• IPA^(key): /ˈpukeʔ/, [ˈpu.xeʔ]
• Rhymes: -ukeʔ, -uke

puke or pukè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)

1. (vulgar, anatomy) vulva

   Synonyms: pipi, kiki, bilat, kepyas, pamamahay, pekpek, pukingking, pepe, pukiki, puwerta, kinababainan, kepay, monay, tahong

• “puke”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

puke

1. sick, ill