chundering
Losing your lunch
Chundering is vomiting, especially the loud, heaving kind.
The word is Australian slang that gained wider exposure through the phrase chundering in the old Pacific sea in a Monty Python song.
British speakers picked it up; Americans rarely use it.
He spent the night chundering after too many beers.
Informal term for Australian
- vomitingExpelling stomach contents orally
- spewingEjecting matter forcefully
- barfingForcefully emptying stomach contents
- pukingForcefully expelling stomach contents
hurling · technicolor yawn · yacking · upchucking · praying to the porcelain god · ralphing · heaving · yakking
Heaving without expelling
- heavingMoving up and down
- gaggingReflex throat constriction
- spewingEjecting matter forcefully
- ejectingForcing removal from within
expelling · regurgitating · disgorging · dry heaving · convulsing · projectile · violent · uncontrollable
Mildly sick to stomach
- sickUnwell or impressively cool
- seasickIll from ocean motion
- nauseatedFeeling urge to vomit
- woozyDizzy and confused
bilious · green around the gills · carsick · airsick · motion sickness · stomach churning · gut-wrenching · pale
Impaired by alcohol
- hammeredSeverely intoxicated or pounded
- plasteredExtremely intoxicated
- sloshedVery intoxicated
- wastedUsed without good result
blitzed · legless · blind drunk · paralytic · trolleyed · written off · three sheets to the wind · tanked
Aussie
Informal term for Australian
- vomitingExpelling stomach contents orally
- spewingEjecting matter forcefully
- barfingForcefully emptying stomach contents
puking · hurling · technicolor yawn · yacking · upchucking · praying to the porcelain god · ralphing · heaving · yakking
retching
Heaving without expelling
ejecting · expelling · regurgitating · disgorging · dry heaving · convulsing · projectile · violent · uncontrollable · sudden
queasy
Mildly sick to stomach
woozy · bilious · green around the gills · carsick · airsick · motion sickness · stomach churning · gut-wrenching · pale · sweaty
drunk
Impaired by alcohol
wasted · blitzed · legless · blind drunk · paralytic · trolleyed · written off · three sheets to the wind · tanked · smashed
chunderingdigesting
Processing consumed food
keeping down · swallowing · retaining · eating · absorbing