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English
Etymology
Clipping of vomit.
Pronunciation
Noun
vom (uncountable)
- (informal) Vomit.
Verb
vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)
- (informal) To vomit.
1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 185:Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.
2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer:Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.
Verb
vom first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative voami or voame, past participle vumutã)
- to vomit
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See also
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse vǫmb.
Pronunciation
Noun
vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)
- belly
- paunch
Declension
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Further reading
German
Pronunciation
Contraction
vom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)
- from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse vǫmb, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.
Noun
vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)
- (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
- (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
- (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly
Inflection
Historical inflection of vom
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indefinite singular
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definite singular
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indefinite plural
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definite plural
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| Aasen1
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Vomb
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Vombi
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Vember
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Vemberna
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| 1901
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vember (vembar)
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vemberne (vembane)
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| 1917
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vomb, vom
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vomba, vombi, vomma, vommi
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vember, vemmer
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vembene2 vemberne, vemmene
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| 1938
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vom
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vomma
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vemmer
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vemmene
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| 1962
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vemmer, vommer
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vemmene, vommene
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| 2012 (current)
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vom
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vomma
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vommer
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vommene
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Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form was allowed for schoolchildren already in 1910.
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References
- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vaamb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vomb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- ^ “vom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)
- (we) will
- Vom lua prânzul la ora douăsprezece.
- We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.
Swedish
Alternative forms
Noun
vom c
- a rumen, a paunch (the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants)
Declension
See also
References
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).
Noun
vom (nominative plural voms)
- woman (adult female human)
Declension
declension of vom
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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