Puke

Definitions

1. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
   uncountable
2. vomit.
   colloquial, uncountable
3. A drug that induces vomiting.
   colloquial, countable
4. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.
   uncountable
5. A worthless, despicable person.
   colloquial, countable
6. A person from Missouri.
   US, countable, derogatory, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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"”

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

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

“Puke-stocking caddis garter”

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