to puke up
- phrasal verb
- /pjuːk ʌp/
- Informal
- The child complained of a tummy ache and then suddenly puked up her dinner.
- puke up his guts
- gonna puke up
- started to puke up
Yeah, they eat mice and and they puke it up.
- Yeah, they eat mice and and they puke it up.
- And I'm trying to find energy to shout through the gag, but have puked up and it's blocking my Airways.
Examples
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I was just puking up a little bit.
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And I took too many of the damn things and I puked them up.
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I spent the day puking up right up to the first bell.
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After watching it, I somehow feel as though I need to run to the bathroom and puke up my lunch.
Blog text (21) -
You puke up everything in your stomach until there's nothing left.
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I ate breakfast at nine, and was puking up pigs in a blanket like a sick dog by ten thirty.
Fiction book (1996) -
It was like a hairball puked up by some demon from hell.
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"You should have seen the look on his face as he puked up the manioc purée we had with the chicken Moamba."
Fiction book (1995) -
After eating that old pizza, I felt sick and had to puke up everything I had eaten.
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He drank too much soda and ended up puking up his lunch on the sidewalk.
Synonyms
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much
Throw up forcefully when you feel very sick
To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth
To force food or drink out of your mouth
To throw up food and drink from your stomach
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
To throw up
To throw up when you feel sick
To throw up a lot with great force
To throw up food you just ate
To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
To bring food or liquid back into the mouth from the stomach without strong vomiting
Antonyms
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to vomit' is directly and transparently derived from 'puke' (to vomit) combined with the particle 'up', which here simply reinforces upward/regurgitative motion or completion. This verb+particle composition follows common English patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Puke up paints a simple picture: puke means to bring food back from the stomach and up shows it moving up from the stomach and out of the mouth. So, it means 'to throw up'.