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Puke   /pjuk/   Listen
Puke

noun
1.
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.  Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot.  "Kill the rat" , "Throw the bum out" , "You cowardly little pukes!" , "The British call a contemptible person a 'git'"
2.
The matter ejected in vomiting.  Synonyms: barf, vomit, vomitus.






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"Puke" Quotes from Famous Books



... worked, the oxen, thanks to whose labor we have bread to chew on, the sheep, because their wool tricks us out so fine. It's the greatest outrage under the sun for people to eat mutton and then wear a tunic. Then there's the bee: in my opinion, they're divine insects because they puke honey, though there are folks that claim that they bring it from Jupiter, and that's the reason they sting, too, for wherever you find a sweet, you'll find a bitter too." He was just putting the philosophers ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter



Words linked to "Puke" :   excrete, keep down, excretory product, excretion, pass, unpleasant person, disagreeable person, egest, eliminate, body waste, puking, excrement, excreta



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