Trump vs Vomit - What's the difference?
trump | vomit |
(US, in the singular, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
(British, in the plural, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
(cards) A playing card of that suit.
(figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
* 1851 ,
* Thackeray
An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
(in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot
A card of the major arcana
(cards) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
(cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump
To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
* Ben Jonson
(dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
* C. Leslie
To supersede.
(obsolete) A trumpet.
* Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52
To blow a trumpet.
(intransitive, slang, UK) To flatulate.
To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
* Bible, Jonah ii. 10
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
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* Milton
* Charlotte Brontë
The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
The act of regurgitating.
(obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun trump
is a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter.As a noun vomit is
vomit.trump
English
Etymology 1
Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s) ).Noun
(en noun)- Diamonds were declared trumps .
- He played an even higher trump .
- All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.
- Alfred is a trump , I think you say.
- (Decker)
Verb
(en verb)- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped .
- to trick or trump mankind
- Authors have been trumped upon us.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
Synonyms
* (To play a trump card on another suit) ruff * (To get the better of a competitor) outsmartCoordinate terms
* (To play a trump card on another suit) underruff, overruffDerived terms
* the last trump * no trump * overtrump * trump card * trump out * trump up * under trumpEtymology 2
From (etyl) trompe "trumpet" from (etyl) trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from (etyl) * "trumpet". Akin to (etyl) trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", (etyl) tromme "drum", (etyl) trumme "drum". More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
Verb
(en verb)- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
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*vomit
English
(wikipedia vomit)Verb
(en verb)- The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
- 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.
- Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
- a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery
Derived terms
* vomitableSynonyms
* See alsoNoun
(-)- He gives your Hollander a vomit .