pukes

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

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.

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