vomit
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre, present active infinitive of vomitō ("vomit repeatedly"), frequentative form of vomō ("be sick, vomit"), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁-.
Pronunciation Verbvomit (vomits, present participle vomiting; simple past and past participle vomited)
- (intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
- (transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
- To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC ↗:
- Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC ↗:
- […] a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC ↗:
- There was a chest of drawers with an escritoire top, for Uriah to read or write at of an evening; there was Uriah’s blue bag lying down and vomiting papers; there was a company of Uriah’s books commanded by Mr. Tidd; there was a corner cupboard: and there were the usual articles of furniture.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45-46]:
- "Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.
- See also Thesaurus:regurgitate
- French: vomir, rendre, rejeter, dégobiller (colloquial), dégueuler (slang), gerber (slang), quicher (slang)
- German: übergeben, erbrechen, kotzen, vomieren, reihern, speien
- Italian: vomitare, rimettere
- Portuguese: vomitar, regurgitar
- Russian: блева́ть
- Spanish: vomitar, devolver, arrojar
vomit (uncountable)
- The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
- The act of regurgitating.
- The act of vomiting.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC ↗:
- He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.
- (informal) Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
- (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene iii]:
- He gives your Hollander a vomit.
- See also Thesaurus:vomit.
- French: vomi
- German: Kotze, Erbrochenes
- Italian: vomito
- Portuguese: vômito (Brazil), vómito (Portugal)
- Russian: блево́тина
- Spanish: vómito
- Russian: блева́ние
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