vomits

Noun

vomit (usually uncountable, plural vomits)

1. (usually) The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
   • For all tables are full of vomite and filthinesse, so that there is no place cleane.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 28:8
2. (usually) The act of regurgitating.
3. (usually) The 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.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
4. (informal, usually) Anything 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."1936, John Wyndham, Stowaway to Mars, published 1972, page x. 81
5. (countable, obsolete, usually) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
   • He gives your Hollander a vomit.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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