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Old 09-27-2007, 03:42 PM   #10 (permalink)
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As with other physiological processes involving body wastes, vomiting has taboo aspects. This is shown by the large number of colourful euphemisms and dysphemisms for vomiting. (see: toilet humour). Reference to vomiting is often made in speech (e.g. "it makes me sick", "I need a bucket") or by gesturing to signify being disgusted by someone or something.
Slang terms for the act of vomiting include: "hurling", "throwing up", "upchucking", "booting", "puking", "ralphing", "barfing", "keeling", "chucking up", "sicking up", "spewing", "spewing chunks", "chundering", "tossing cookies", "a technicolor yawn", "making street pizza", "shouting groceries", and "boking".
"Wallace and Gromit" has recently become Cockney rhyming slang for vomit.[6]
"Puke" and "puking" date from at least the 16th century.[7] In As You Like It, Shakespeare talks of the infant 'Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms'.
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