chunder
VomitVomit.
Recorded: Commander Keane, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» She was chundering all over the place.
Sie hat alles vollgekotzt. — Luiaard
Luiaard · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)Vomit.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)An act of vomiting.
(countable, uncountable)Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.
Examples
3 sentencesShe was chundering all over the place.
deSie hat alles vollgekotzt. — Luiaard
Last night I chundered.
ruВчера вечером меня рвало. — odexed
I've just chundered on your carpet. Sorry.
deIch habe dir gerade auf den Teppich gekotzt. Entschuldige! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyminUnknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950.
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Forms
plural: chundersSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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