puke
verb
[ pjuːk ]
• vomit.
• "wild with shame at puking up like a baby"
Similar:
vomit,
throw up,
retch,
cough up,
bring up,
regurgitate,
heave,
gag,
be sick,
get sick,
chunder,
chuck up,
hurl,
spew,
do the technicolor yawn,
keck,
honk,
sick up,
boke,
spit up,
barf,
upchuck,
toss one's cookies,
blow chunks,
puke
noun
• vomit.
Origin:
late 16th century: probably imitative; first recorded as a verb in: ‘At first the infant, mewling, and puking in the nurse's arms’, in Shakespeare's As you like it (II. vii. 144).
