Noun: puke
Sample Sentences
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2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber"
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the puke saber … pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"
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"at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day." [1776, Physician Lewis Beebe, Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician:]
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"Pukes" and "suckers" had badly mauled the Saints, the first pummeling them from Missouri and the second from Illinois. [2009, Clive Scott Chisholm, Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream:]
Nouns inflected like puke
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Probably imitative; or, alternatively related to Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then related to German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”), Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), and Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.
2. Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It. See: Old English Nouns '
spīwan'.
Verbs referencing "puke"
Latin Nouns
bucca.