vomit

Etymology

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre, present active infinitive of vomitō (“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.

verb

1. (intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
2. (transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
   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
3. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
   "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

noun

1. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
2. The act of regurgitating.
3. The act of vomiting.
4. (informal) 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. (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.