chunder

[ chuhn-der ]

noun

1. vomit.

chunder

/ ˈtʃʌndə /

verb

1. to vomit

noun

1. vomit

Word History and Origins

Origin of chunder¹

First recorded in 1920–25; of uncertain origin; perhaps ultimately an expressive formation akin to dialectal (mainly N England) chunder “grumble, complain”; chunter

Word History and Origins

Origin of chunder¹

C20: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

With a distinctive nasal twang, the locals pepper their conversations with “crikey,” “sprog,” “yobbo,” “tinny,” “chunder,” “togs” and “hard yakka.”

From New York Times

And so it ended up that the public address wound up playing a merry “Down Under” after the whistle, even if it did feel odd to sit in a country mostly dry and ponder the lyric “where beer does flow and men chunder.”

From Washington Post

“Better not have another one, I might chunder on the train.”

From Washington Post

“They make me want to chunder. Give me real people. Give me people who can move their faces. Give me people that have views and opinions.”

From Washington Times

Its most fully imagined characters are conspicuously all non-English and ethnically and religiously diverse: the Irish Catholic hero, the Pathan horse-dealer Mahbub Ali, an elderly upper-class lady from the North-West provinces, the Bengali spy Hurree Chunder Mookerjee and, not least, a Tibetan lama.

From Washington Post