vom

Etymology

Shortening.

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) 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

• MOV, mov.

Alternative forms

• vomu, zvom, zvomu

Etymology

From Latin vomō. Compare Daco-Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

vom (third-person singular present indicative voami/voame, past participle vumutã)

1. I vomit.

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔm/, [vʌmˀ]

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

1. belly
2. paunch

Further reading

• “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog

Pronunciation

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Contraction

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vom]

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.

Etymology

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

Noun

vom (plural voms)

1. woman (adult female human)