vom
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /vɒm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editvom (uncountable)
Verb
editvom (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[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.
Anagrams
editAromanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.
Verb
editvom first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative voami or voame, past participle vumutã)
- to vomit
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editDanish
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editNoun
editvom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)
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editFurther reading
edit- “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog
German
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editContraction
editvom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)
Norwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse vǫmb,[3] from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.
Noun
editvom 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
editHistorical inflection of vom
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] 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. |
References
edit- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vaamb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vomb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[2] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- ^ “vom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
editPronunciation
editVerb
edit(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)
Swedish
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editNoun
editvom c
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | vom | voms |
definite | vommen | vommens | |
plural | indefinite | vommar | vommars |
definite | vommarna | vommarnas |
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editVolapük
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).
Noun
editvom (nominative plural voms)
- woman (adult female human)
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