vom

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See also: VOM and vòm

English

Etymology

Clipping of vomit.

Pronunciation

Noun

vom (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Vomit.

Verb

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

  1. (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)

  1. to vomit

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb.

Pronunciation

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

  1. belly
  2. paunch

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German

Pronunciation

Contraction

vom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

  1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb,[3] from Proto-Germanic *wambō (belly; womb). Cognates include English womb.

Noun

vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

  1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
  2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
  3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly

Inflection

References

  1. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vaamb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  2. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vomb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  3. ^ “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)

  1. (we) will
    Vom lua prânzul la ora douăsprezece.
    We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

Swedish

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Noun

vom c

  1. a rumen, a paunch (the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants)

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References

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).

Noun

vom (nominative plural voms)

  1. woman (adult female human)

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