barf
/bɑːf
/informal, chiefly North American
verb [no object]
Vomit.08: 16 a.m. - Andy apologetically dives under the bed and finishes barfing....
- To balance this there are sickly terrifying moments aplenty: projectile infected-blood barfing, a crazed dog darting out of the woods to attack, a rotting friend locked away in a tool shed.
- The place is all set up for a smashing party - $90 and you'll be barfing all the way back to the idle buffet with your very own bottle of Chivas Regal.
noun
1An attack of vomiting.I am suspicious of a play that depends on the advanced cloddishness of its characters, and whose biggest coup is the unexpected and very realistic barf of one of them....
- I didn't ask my driver to step on it nor did I inform him of my sickly state because if there's one thing cabbies fear more than, say, a passenger with a loaded gun, it's a passenger on the brink of a good barf.
- Now I need to eat some grass and have a good barf.
1.1 [mass noun] Vomited food.08: 15 a.m. - Rana returns to bedroom to find kitty barf all over the bed....
- Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
- I've cleaned up a lot of cat barf in my time, and normally it's not so bad.
Origin
1960s (originally US): of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- per fas aut nefas
- per fas et nefas
- perfeck
- perfect
- perfecta
- perfectability
- perfectable
- perfect age
- perfect binding
- perfect cadence
- perfect chord
- perfect competition
- perfect crime
- perfectedly
- perfecter
- perfect game
- perfect gas
- perfectibilarian
- perfectibilian
- perfectibilism
- perfectibilist
- perfectibilitarian
- perfectibility
- perfectible
- perfecting cylinder