/ˈvɒmɪt/, /ˈvɑmɪt/
OriginFrom Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
- intransitiveTo regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
“The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.”
- transitiveTo regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
“It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theol”
- To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
“She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.”
“Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.” — Comus
“[…]a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery, spread noiseless over the fields, the road, the common, and rolled, he said, blue and dim to his very feet.”
- uncountable, usuallyThe regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
“For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.”
- uncountable, usuallyThe act of regurgitating.
- uncountable, usuallyThe act of vomiting.
“He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.”
- informal, uncountable, usuallyAnything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
“"[Y]ou've spent so much of your life writing romantic vomit for morons that the mushy bit of the brain you did have has gone rancid."”
- countable, obsolete, usuallyThat which causes vomiting; an emetic.
“He gives your Hollander a vomit.”
Formsvomits(present, singular, third-person) · vomiting(participle, present) · vomited(participle, past) · vomited(past) · vomits(plural)