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puke

See also: pūkè, puķe, puķē, and пуке

English

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: pyo͞ok, IPA(key): /pjuːk/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːk

Etymology 1

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Probably imitative; or, alternatively from Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then cognate with German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”). Compare also Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), 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.

Noun

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puke (countable and uncountable, plural pukes)

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

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

  1. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
  2. (intransitive, finance, 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.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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puke (uncountable)

  1. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
  2. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

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  • wollencloth: Word Detective
  • The Universal Dictionary of English, 1896, 4 vols: "Of a dark colour, said to be between black and russet."
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Hawaiian

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FWOTD – 12 February 2014

Etymology

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Borrowed from English book.

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Noun

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puke

  1. book
  2. volume, a major or primary division of a long periodical work.

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  • Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

Kankanaey

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Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Kankanaey) IPA(key): /ˈpukə/ [ˈpuː.k̠ɨ]
  • Rhymes: -ukə
  • Syllabification: pu‧ke

Noun

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púkë

  1. (Sabangan, Bauko) shoulder

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Dialectal synonyms of puke (shoulder)
Northern / Applai
Mt. Province parts of Tadian poko
parts of Bauko puke
Sagada poke
Besao poke
parts of Sabangan puke
Others
Ilocos Sur Suyo abaga, padanga
Quirino poke
La Union Santol padanga
Bagulin abaa
Southern / Central
Benguet Mankayan padanga
Bakun padanga
Kapangan padanga
Kibungan padanga
Buguias padanga
Mt. Province Tadian poke
Bauko puke
Sabangan puke

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  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “púke”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎[2], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 371

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian (compare Fijian buke, Malay bukit).

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puke

  1. (geography) hill

Middle English

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puke

  1. Alternative form of pouke

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse púki, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô.

Noun

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pūke m

  1. devil, demon

Declension

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Declension of pūke (weak an-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pūke pūken pūkar pūkarnir
accusative pūka pūkan pūka pūkana
dative pūka pūkanom pūkom pūkonom
genitive pūka pūkans pūka pūkanna

Descendants

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  • Swedish: puke; ⇒ skråpuke, ⇒ skråpuk

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

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Noun

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puke or pukè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ) (vulgar, anatomy)

  1. vulva
    Synonyms: pipi, kiki, bilat, kikyam, kepyas, pamamahay, pekpek, pukingking, pepe, pukiki, puwerta, kinababainan, kepay, monay, (colloquial) tahong, (obsolete) urit

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Further reading

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  • “puke”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tongan

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Adjective

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puke

  1. sick, ill
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