Puking

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The physical act of ejecting stomach contents through the mouth as a reaction to nausea may also indicate an underlying health issue while informally denoting strong disapproval or aversion to something
2. Forcibly releasing the contents of the stomach via the mouth occurs due to sickness or excessive eating, and it can also colloquially signify a strong dislike for something
3. The act of expelling the contents of the stomach through the mouth is often a result of illness or overconsumption, while also being used informally to express intense dislike or rejection of something

Etymology: The earliest surviving trace of "puke" is not the verb at all but a noun: "pukishness", meaning a tendency to be sick frequently, first recorded in 1581. The verb itself turns up in 1600, when Shakespeare uses it in the Seven Ages of Man speech in "As You Like It", where the soldier is described as "full of strange oaths" and sudden quarrels, with the sense "to spit up, regurgitate." Where the sound itself comes from is uncertain. It may simply be imitative, the noise a retching throat makes, or it may descend from a Proto-Germanic root meaning "to spit, puff." If the latter is right, "puke" belongs to a family of spitting and hissing words across Germanic languages: German "spucken" (to spit or puke), Dutch "spugen" (to spit up), and Old English "spīwan" (to vomit), which gave modern English "spew."

Synonyms: vomiting, retching, heaving, upchucking, casting up

Antonyms: ingesting, eating, consuming, swallowing, digestion