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puke

/pjuːk/

puke noun: vomit.

Noun (1)

puke (countable and uncountable, plural pukes)

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
    • the puke saber … pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber"
  2. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
    • "at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day."1776, Physician Lewis Beebe, Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician
  3. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
  4. (US, countable, derogatory, slang) A person from Missouri.
    • "Pukes" and "suckers" had badly mauled the Saints, the first pummeling them from Missouri and the second from Illinois.2009, Clive Scott Chisholm, Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream

Verb

puke (third-person singular simple present pukes, present participle puking, simple past and past participle puked)

  1. (ambitransitive, colloquial) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
    • Unfortunately, he could not hold it long enough till the end of the ride, so he puked on the bus seat.
    • At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's armsc. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (intransitive, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.

Noun (2)

puke (uncountable)

  1. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
    • Puke-stocking caddis garterc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

puke meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

puke in Hindi

पुके, प्युक

puke in Tamil

வாந்தி எடு

puke in Marathi

प्युक

puke in Urdu

puke, vomit, vomiting
قے qai
More languagesFewer languages
puke in Bengali
পুকে
puke in Telugu
పుకే
puke in Malayalam
ഛർദ്ദിക്കുക, ഉദ്വമിക്കുക, പുരട്ടുക, മനംപുരട്ടുക
puke in Kannada
ಪುಕೇ
puke in Punjabi
ਪੁਕੇ
puke in Gujarati
પુકે, પ્યુક
puke in Odia
ପୁକେ, ପ୍ଯ଼ୁକ୍
puke in Nepali
पुके
puke in Malay
muntah
puke in Indonesian
muntah

Examples of puke in a sentence

  • The baby puked up all over my shirt.
  • Ten minutes later you have a weird feeling you are going to puke out through your toes.
  • The pizza is garnished with edible rainbow glitter, also known as 'unicorn puke.'

All 24 example sentences with puke

Synonyms of puke

All synonyms of puke

Forms of puke

Noun
pluralpukes
Verb
third-person singular presentpukes
present participlepuking
past participlepuked
pastpuked

Origin of puke

Probably imitative; or, alternatively related to Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then related to German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”), Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), and Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew. Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Words formed from puke

Phrases with puke

Words that rhyme with puke

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Questions about puke

What does puke mean?
Puke means vomit.
What is puke in Hindi?
Puke in Hindi is पुके, प्युक. See Puke meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is puke?
Puke can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce puke?
Puke is pronounced /pjuːk/.
What is the plural of puke?
The plural of puke is pukes.

Words near puke in the dictionary

  1. pukaras
  2. pukas
  3. pukatea
  4. pukateas
  5. pukateine
  6. puke
  7. puke for brains
  8. puke one's brains out
  9. puke one's guts out
  10. puke one's ring
  11. puke up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puke (page history and authors); puke (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puke (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); puke (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); قے (Urdu) (page history and authors); puke (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puke (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puke (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); puke (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puke (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puke (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puke (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puke (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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