puke

1. 1.

   eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

   “After drinking too much, the students vomited”

   “He purged continuously”

   “The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night”

   Synonymsvomitvomit uppurgecastsickcatbe sickdisgorgeregorgeretchbarfspewspuechuck

   Broaderexcrete

Other forms of puke

plural

pukes·

past tense

puked·

present participle

puking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about puke

What does puke mean?

puke means "a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in puke?

puke has 1 syllable: puke. In IPA it is /ˈpjuk/.

What is another word for puke?

Close synonyms include rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puke a common word?

puke is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.