vomit

The fish […] vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jonah 2:10:

(intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.

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.

1988, Angela Carter, “Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 713:

(transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.

Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

[…]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.

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Levitical”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 19:

There was a chest of drawers with an escritoire 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.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

"Hullo!" said the athlete, and vomited with this greeting a cloud of tobacco-smoke. It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.

1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45-46]

After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.

2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:

To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.

en-verb

vomit (third-person singular simple present vomits, present participle vomiting, simple past and past participle vomited)

vomits (present singular third-person)
vomiting (participle present)
vomited (participle past)
vomited (past)

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.


vomit

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:

The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.

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:

"[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:

(informal) Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.

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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

(obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

en-noun

vomit (usually uncountable, plural vomits)


vomit

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of vomir:
third-person singular past historic


vomit

third-person singular present active indicative of vomō


vomit

first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of vomita