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Puking vs Vomiting - What's the difference?

puking | vomiting |

As verbs the difference between puking and vomiting

is that puking is while vomiting is .

As nouns the difference between puking and vomiting

is that puking is the act of one who pukes or vomits while vomiting is the action of the verb vomit.

puking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pukes or vomits.
  • * 1797 , Michael Underwood, A treatise on the disorders of childhood, and management of infants from the birth
    • Of the former I have incontestable proofs in several instances, in the pukings of infants nourished only by breast-milk, which changed blue-paper red, upon being applied to it the moment they were brought off the stomach.

    vomiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb vomit
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings . The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.