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Puked vs Nuked - What's the difference?

puked | nuked |

As verbs the difference between puked and nuked

is that puked is (puke) while nuked is (nuke).

puked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (puke)

    • puke

    English

    Etymology 1

    1581, first mention is the derivative . More at (l).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) vomit.
  • * 2007', '''', The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the ' puke saber"
    • the puke saber [...] pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"
  • (countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
  • (countable) A worthless, despicable person.
    • Synonyms
    * See * (person) rotter

    Verb

    (puk)
  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
  • * 1599 ,
    • At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms
    Synonyms
    * See
    Derived terms
    * puker

    Etymology 2

    (en)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • A fine grade of woolen cloth
    • 1599 ,
  • :* Puke -stocking caddis garter
  • A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

    • References

    * wollencloth: Word Detective * The Universal Dictionary of English, 1896, 4 vols: "Of a dark colour, said to be between black and russet." ----

    nuked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nuke)

    • nuke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Nuclear weapon.
    • "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
  • Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
  • (US, slang) A microwave oven
    • "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
  • Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke

    • Verb

    (nuk)
  • To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
    • First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
  • (colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
    • I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
  • (colloquial) To completely destroy.
    • To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.''http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke (see also ''expunge )

    Derived terms

    * nuker

    References

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