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Vomit vs Sickbag - What's the difference?

vomit | sickbag |

As nouns the difference between vomit and sickbag

is that vomit is vomit while sickbag is a bag for catching vomit, often provided on aeroplanes in case of travel sickness.

vomit

English

(wikipedia vomit)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
  • * Bible, Jonah ii. 10
    • The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
  • To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
  • * '>citation
    • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
  • * Milton
    • Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery

    Derived terms

    * vomitable

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
  • The act of regurgitating.
  • (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He gives your Hollander a vomit .

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    See also

    * emetic ----

    sickbag

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bag for catching vomit, often provided on aeroplanes in case of travel sickness.
  • * 1975 , Bill C Malone, Judith McCulloh, Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez
    • By the time he got back to Nashville, he had written the rest of the song on the back of a sickbag from the airplane.