Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. · The act of regurgitating. · The act of vomiting. · Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke. · To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew. · To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“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.
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