puke

See also: pūkè, puķe, puķē, пуке, and Pukë

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pyo͞ok, IPA^(key): /pjuːk/

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• Rhymes: -uːk

Etymology 1

Probably imitative; or, alternatively from Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.

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.

Noun

puke (countable and uncountable, plural pukes)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
   • 2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber"

     the puke saber [...] pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"

2. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
   • 1776, Physician Lewis Beebe, Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician‎:

     "at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day."

3. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
4. (US, slang, derogatory, countable) A person from Missouri.
   • 2009, Clive Scott Chisholm, Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream:

     "Pukes" and "suckers" had badly mauled the Saints, the first pummeling them from Missouri and the second from Illinois.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:vomit
• (person) rotter

Derived terms

• fairy puke
• unicorn puke

Translations

vomit

Bulgarian: повръщане n (povrǎštane) Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify) 呕吐 (zh) (ǒutù) Czech: zvratky Dutch: kots (nl) m Finnish: oksennus (fi), yrjö (fi), (informal) laatta (fi) French: vomi (fr) German: Kotze (de) f Hungarian: hányadék (hu), okádék (hu), róka (hu) Icelandic: gubb n Indonesian: muntah (id) Italian: vomito (it) m Latin: vomitus m Macedonian: повра́ќање (povráḱanje), блу́ење (blúenje) Malay: muntah (ms) Plautdietsch: Kolkj n Polish: rzygi (pl) pl, rzygowina f Portuguese: vômito (pt) Romanian: borât (ro) Russian: блево́тина (ru) f (blevótina) Serbo-Croatian: izbljuvak, bljuvotina (sh), povraćotina Sicilian: sbùmmicu Slovene: bruhanje n Spanish: vómito (es) m, guácara f, basca (es) f Sundanese: luga, utah Swedish: spya (sv) c, kräk (sv) c, uppkastning (sv) c

drug

Serbo-Croatian: emetik Spanish: vomitivo (es) m

person

Sicilian: cessu (scn) m, merda (scn) f Spanish: mierda (es) f, basca (es) f

Verb

puke (third-person singular simple present pukes, present participle puking, simple past and past participle puked)

1. (colloquial, ambitransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

     At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms

   • 1612–1613 (date written), John Webster, The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1623, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, recto:

     I obſerue our Ducheſſe / Is ſicke a dayes, ſhe puykes, her ſtomacke ſeethes, […]

2. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:regurgitate
• vomit
• barf
• spew
• throw up
• spew up

Derived terms

• puke one's brains out
• puke one's guts out
• puke one's ring
• puker
• puke up

Translations

to vomit

Afrikaans: kotz Aragonese: gomitar Bulgarian: повръщам (bg) (povrǎštam) Cherokee: ᏚᎦᏍᏗᎭ (dugasdiha) Czech: blít (cs) Dutch: kotsen (nl) Finnish: oksentaa (fi), yrjötä (fi), antaa ylen, laatata (fi), purjota French: vomir (fr), gerber (fr), dégueuler (fr), dégobiller (fr), caller l’orignal (Quebec) German: kotzen (de), kübeln (de), speien (de), spucken (de), reihern (de) Hebrew: הקיא (he) (hekí) Hungarian: hányik, okádik (hu), rókázik (hu) Italian: vomitare (it) Khiamniungan Naga: phūh Latgalian: vemt Latin: vomō Latvian: vemt (lv) Lithuanian: vemti (lt) Macedonian: по́враќа (póvraḱa), блу́е (blúe) Norwegian: spy (no), kaste opp (no), elge (no), mate fiskene Ottoman Turkish: قوصمق (kusmak) Polish: rzygać (pl) Portuguese: vomitar (pt) Romanian: borî (ro) Russian: блева́ть (ru) (blevátʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: : povraćati, bljuvati (sh), rigati (sh) Spanish: devolver (es), vomitar (es), potar (es), guacarear, huacarear (DAMER), buitrear (es), camiar (es) (disused, DLE) Swedish: spy (sv), kräkas (sv), vomera (sv), kasta upp

Etymology 2

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Noun

puke (uncountable)

1. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     Puke-stocking caddis garter

2. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

References

• wollencloth: Word Detective
• The Universal Dictionary of English, 1896, 4 vols: "Of a dark colour, said to be between black and russet."
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Puke”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Hawaiian

FWOTD – 12 February 2014

Etymology

Borrowed from English book.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ke/

Noun

puke

1. book
2. volume, a major or primary division of a long periodical work.

References

• Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈpukə/ [ˈpuː.k̠ɨ]
• Rhymes: -ukə
• Syllabification: pu‧ke

Noun

púkë

1. (Sabangan, Bauko) shoulder

Synonyms

Northern / Applai
Mt. Province	parts of Tadian	poko
	parts of Bauko	puke
	Sagada	poke
	Besao	poke
	parts of Sabangan	puke
Others
Ilocos Sur	Suyo	abaga, padanga
	Quirino	poke
La Union	Santol	padanga
	Bagulin	abaa
Southern / Central
Benguet	Mankayan	padanga
	Bakun	padanga
	Kapangan	padanga
	Kibungan	padanga
	Buguias	padanga
Mt. Province	Tadian	poke
	Bauko	puke
	Sabangan	puke

Dialectal synonyms of puke (shoulder)

References

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “púke”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎, Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 371

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian (compare Fijian buke, Malay bukit).

Noun

puke

1. (geography) hill

Middle English

Noun

puke

1. Alternative form of pouke

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse púki, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô.

Noun

pūke m

1. devil, demon

Declension

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pūke	pūken	pūkar	pūkarnir
accusative	pūka	pūkan	pūka	pūkana
dative	pūka	pūkanom	pūkom	pūkonom
genitive	pūka	pūkans	pūka	pūkanna

Declension of pūke (weak an-stem)

Descendants

• Swedish: puke; ⇒ skråpuke, ⇒ skråpuk

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• poqui, puqui — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• puki

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki. Compare with Malay puki.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpuke/ [ˈpuː.xɛ], /ˈpukeʔ/ [ˈpuː.xɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -uke, -ukeʔ
• Syllabification: pu‧ke

Noun

puke or pukè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ) (vulgar, anatomy)

1. vulva

   Synonyms: pipi, kiki, bilat, kikyam, kepyas, pamamahay, pekpek, pukingking, pepe, pukiki, puwerta, kinababainan, kepay, monay, (colloquial) tahong, (obsolete) urit

Derived terms

• puke ng ina mo
• tampalpuke

See also

• pukinggan
• tinggil

Further reading

• “puke”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tongan

Adjective

puke

1. sick, ill