puke – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to puke
Participle: puked
Gerund: puking

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of puke

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	puke
we	Let's puke
you	puke

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to regurgitate the contents of a stomach

bait, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, cast up one's accounts, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, sick up, spew, throw up, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit, yak

vomit

retch, regurgitate, heave, barf, disgorge

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1600, probably of imitative origin (cf. Ger. spucken "to spit," L. spuere); first recorded in the "Seven Ages of Man" speech in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The noun meaning "material thrown up in vomiting" is from 1961.
2. 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.
3. 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: German, old spelling 'pfauchen', Dutch 'spugen', German, old spelling 'spucken'.

Verbs referencing "puke"

German, old spelling fauchen.

Sample Sentences