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Pukey vs Puke - What's the difference?

pukey | puke |

As adjectives the difference between pukey and puke

is that pukey is resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc while puke is a fine grade of woolen cloth.

As a noun puke is

vomit.

As a verb puke is

to vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.

pukey

English

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.

    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." ----