Adjective

(en adjective)

deserving contempt

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Adjective

(en adjective)

(informal) Resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.

* 2007 , Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, Foreign Exposure: The Social Climber Abroad :

The walls in this abandoned waiting area were painted a pukey orange, compounding the feeling of queasiness I'd had since breakfast.

(informal) Inclined to vomit; sick.

* 2005 , Rebecca Eckler, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be :

There's no way he'd allow a dog on his couch or on his 500-thread-count sheets, let alone a pukey baby.

(informal) Vile; contemptible.

* 2003 , Guy Davenport, The Death of Picasso :

He called Mikkel a pukey little faggot. I'll kick him again when I can get at him.

* 2007 , Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium :

...it's nothing more than a pukey little garrison town in the middle of nowhere.