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to puke

to puke

186 6.6
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
  • verb
  • /pjuːk/
  • NSFW
translation icon : vomitar
  • A couple of the passengers were discreetly puking into airsickness bags.
  • want to puke

He was at the door and then my son started puking for five hours.

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Examples

  • I feel like I'm gonna puke.

  • I thought I was going to puke and stop breathing at the same time.

  • Though he had no energy to puke and nothing to puke anyway.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I think I'm going to puke!

  • Tell ya, I'm gonna puke if he beats on you anymore.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I got so drunk, I puked on his car.

  • I stood up trying to make it to the doors and I puked all over him.

  • I ate breakfast at nine, and was puking up pigs in a blanket like a sick dog by ten thirty.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Think I'm gonna puke.

  • After eating too much pizza, I started to puke during the movie.

Synonyms

to throw up
vsto puke
  • Informal
296 2.3

To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth

is slightly more coarse or vivid in casual speech
to vomit
vsto puke
148 1.0

To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth

is more colloquial and rough in ordinary use
to be sick
vsto puke
109 1.7

To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth

is rougher and more colloquial than this polite expression
to barf
vsto puke
  • NSFW
38 7.7

To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth

is the neutral action without slang or marked informality
to cast
vsto puke
  • Archaic
9 9.3

To throw up what is in the stomach

is the common informal word rather than this plain verb
to spew
vsto puke
  • Informal
9 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

is the same action but usually less violent in tone
to puke up
vsto puke
  • Informal
8 8.2

To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick

is the broader term for ejecting any stomach contents
to chuck
vsto puke
  • UK
7 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is typically harsher and more vivid than that casual verb
to blow chunks
vsto puke
  • NSFW
6 9.9

Throw up forcefully when you feel very sick

is a general term without that intense slang vividness
to regurgitate
vsto puke
5 7.7

To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth

is the general action not limited to food return
to ralph
vsto puke
  • Slang
4 9.5

To force food or drink out of your mouth

is the standard neutral word that fits formal contexts
to honk
vsto puke
  • NSFW
4 9.3

To throw up when you feel sick

is the straightforward neutral word for the same act
to upchuck
vsto puke
  • NSFW
3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

is more direct and crude than this mild informal phrase
to vomit up
vsto puke
  • Informal
3 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

is used more informally and often with stronger tone
to sick
vsto puke
1 7.4

To throw up

is slightly harsher or more expressive than that short phrase
to spue
vsto puke
  • NSFW
1 9.9

To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit

is limited to stomach contents rather than other mouth material
to boke
vsto puke
  • Slang
1 9.9

To throw up when you feel sick

is the general neutral verb used across varieties
to regorge
vsto puke
9.9

To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick

is the everyday spoken action without formal tone
to disgorge
vsto puke
8.7

To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick

is more common in speech and less formal

Antonyms

60 3.0

To hold something inside so it does not escape

Idioms

7 9.9

Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much

Phrasal Verbs

to want to puke
  • Informal
9 8.4

To feel like you are going to throw up

to puke up
  • Informal
8 8.2

To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick

9.2

To throw up a lot with great force

Compounds

unicorn puke
  • Slang
9.9

A bright, messy mix of many colors used to decorate things

How Violent

to puke guts out
  • NSFW
9.2
to puke
  • NSFW
186 6.6
retch
1 8.4

Surface Forms

puke infinitive
puked past
puked past participle
puking present participle
pukes third person singular

Etymology

Puke began as a word that sounds like the action itself, from a sound like puk that copies throwing up. So to puke is to 'vomit', and the sound of the word helps you remember the action.