Puke \Puke\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   Of a color supposed to be between black and russet. --Shak.
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   Note: This color has by some been regarded as the same with
         puce; but Nares questions the identity.
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	Puke \Puke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puked; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Puking.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.]
   To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
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         The infant
         Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.  --Shak.
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	Puke \Puke\, v. t.
   To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
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	Puke \Puke\, n.
   A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
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	puke
    n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
         "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
         bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
         contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
         rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
         crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
    2: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus,
       puke, barf]
    v 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" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
         sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
         puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
         regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

	

	46 Moby Thesaurus words for "puke":
   barf, be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast,
   cat, choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta,
   egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave,
   heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, louse, nausea, prick,
   regurgitate, regurgitation, reject, retch, scum, shit, shithead,
   shoot, sick up, sicken at, spew, stinkard, throw up, turd, upchuck,
   vomit, vomiting, vomition, wretch