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to puke up

to puke up

8 8.2
To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick
  • phrasal verb
  • /pjuːk ʌp/
  • Informal
translation icon : vomitar
  • 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.

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Examples

  • I was just puking up a little bit.

  • And I took too many of the damn things and I puked them up.

  • I spent the day puking up right up to the first bell.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • "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.

  • He drank too much soda and ended up puking up his lunch on the sidewalk.

Synonyms

to throw up
vsto puke up
  • Informal
296 2.3

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

is specific to regurgitating eaten food rather than any return of matter
to puke
vsto puke up
  • NSFW
186 6.6

To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick

focuses on returning recently eaten food rather than any stomach matter
to vomit
vsto puke up
148 1.0

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

is about returning eaten food and not necessarily about forceful expulsion
to be sick
vsto puke up
109 1.7

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

narrows this to specifically regurgitating food after it was eaten
to barf
vsto puke up
  • NSFW
38 7.7

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

is the neutral expression for regurgitating food rather than slang use
to spew
vsto puke up
  • Informal
9 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

describes regurgitation without stressing the violent force involved
to chuck
vsto puke up
  • UK
7 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is the more neutral description focused on returning eaten food
to puke my guts out
vsto puke up
  • NSFW
7 9.9

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

is the basic act of returning eaten food without repeated violence
to blow chunks
vsto puke up
  • NSFW
6 9.9

Throw up forcefully when you feel very sick

is the neutral term for regurgitating eaten food without crude tone
to regurgitate
vsto puke up
5 7.7

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

focuses on regurgitating recently eaten food rather than feeding contexts
to ralph
vsto puke up
  • Slang
4 9.5

To force food or drink out of your mouth

is the neutral, descriptive expression for food regurgitation
to upchuck
vsto puke up
  • NSFW
3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

is the neutral phrase used for regurgitating recently eaten food
to vomit up
vsto puke up
  • Informal
3 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

emphasizes regurgitating eaten food rather than the force or violence of it
to sick
vsto puke up
1 7.4

To throw up

highlights returning eaten food, not just a general illness action
to boke
vsto puke up
  • Slang
1 9.9

To throw up when you feel sick

is the general idea but not marked as regional or informal
to puke guts out
vsto puke up
  • NSFW
9.2

To throw up a lot with great force

covers the same act but not necessarily violent or excessive
to launch one's lunch
vsto puke up
  • Slang
9.9

To throw up food you just ate

is the neutral description for actual regurgitation of eaten food
to disgorge
vsto puke up
8.7

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

is a more neutral everyday description rather than formal wording
to regorge
vsto puke up
9.9

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

specifies regurgitating food eaten earlier rather than any return of matter
to regurge
vsto puke up
  • Archaic
9.9

To bring food or liquid back into the mouth from the stomach without strong vomiting

is about regurgitating eaten food and may include forceful cases too

Antonyms

68 3.6

To eat or drink something so it goes into your body

How Violent

to throw up
  • Informal
296 2.3
to puke up
  • Informal
8 8.2
to spit up
1 4.1

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

puke + up

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'.