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   puke

   /pjuːk/

   verb

   • 1. vomit: "wild with shame at puking up like a baby"

   noun

   • 1. vomit.

   Word Origin late 16th century: probably imitative; first recorded as a verb in: ‘At first the infant, mewling, and puking in the nurse's arms’, in Shakespeare's As you like it (ii. vii. 144).

   Derivatives

   • 1. pukey adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • P

     3

   • U

     1

   • K

     5

   • E

     1

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