vomit
/ˈvɑmɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land."
- "It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping."
- "She snapped and started vomiting curses at us."
- "Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke."
- "[…]a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery, spread noiseless over the fields, the road, the common, and rolled, he said, blue and dim to his very feet."
- "There was a chest of drawers with an escrutoire top, for Uriah to read or write at of an evening; there was Uriah’s blue bag lying down and vomiting papers; there was a company of Uriah’s books, commanded by Mr. Tidd; there was a corner cupboard; and there were the usual articles of furniture."
Etymology
From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *wemh₁-, vomiten, vomitō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɑmɪt/
- British English: /ˈvɒmɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
coffee ground vomit
dry vomit
I need to vomit
projectile vomit
vomit blood
vomiting nut
vomit up
word vomit