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Pukey vs Puker - What's the difference?

pukey | puker |

As an adjective pukey

is (informal) resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.

As a noun puker is

someone who pukes, a vomiter.

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.

    puker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who pukes, a vomiter.
  • That which causes vomiting.
    • (Garth)
  • (broadcasting, slang) A person who caricatures the manner of speech of a disc jockey or announcer, using affected, back-of-the-throat speech that is likened to puking.
    • (Webster 1913)