puke

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puke1 /pjuːk/ (also puke up) verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] informal

1 MIto bring food back up from your stomach through your mouth 呕吐 SYN vomit

He puked all over the carpet.

他吐得地毯上到处都是。

2 make you (want to) puke informalANNOY to make you feel very angry 真让人恶心[想吐]

That kind of greed makes me puke!

那么贪婪，真让我恶心！

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make you (want to) puke• It made me want to puke.• It makes you want to puke.• Orange juice is acidic, that made me puke.• The stuff was either rubbish, or twee, or so boring it made you want to puke.• It makes me want to puke, except I did enough of that last Saturday night!

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puke• When we say sick we mean puking.• The stuff was either rubbish, or twee, or so boring it made you want to puke.• I feel like I'm going to puke again.• Plato would probably have puked at Williams' seeming materialism.• It makes me want to puke, except I did enough of that last Saturday night!• It smells like someone puked in here.• Heather lay 011 her bunk and puked into the pail.• Suddenly I start puking into the road, but nothing comes up except this slimy stuff.• The horse-faced young man was still puking, though by now it was just dry heaves.• They puke with great accuracy and surprising range.

puke2 noun [uncountableU]

informalMI food brought back up from your stomach through your mouth 呕吐物 SYN vomit

Examples from the Corpus

puke• Upstairs, Jack could lie down and think about puke and poison.• How much of my manhood is watery puke?

Origin puke1

(1500-1600) Probably from the sound

puke1 verbpuke2 noun

Chinese

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