vomit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

   After drinking too much, the students vomited

2. 2
   verb

   To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

   The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

3. 3
   verb

   To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.

   It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.

4. 4
   verb

   To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.

   She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.

5. 5
   noun

   The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.

   For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.

6. 6
   noun

   The act of vomiting.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.

   "[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."

8. 8
   noun

   That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

   He gives your Hollander a vomit.

Etymology

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.