parbreak

English

Etymology

From Middle French par- + brake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑː(ɹ)ˈbɹeɪk/

Verb

parbreak (third-person singular simple present parbreaks, present participle parbreaking, simple past and past participle parbreaked)

1. (obsolete) To vomit, spew out.
   • a. 1539, John Skelton, How the Duke of Albany […] :

     What have ye, villayn, forged,
     And virulently dysgorged
     As though ye wolde parbrake

Noun

parbreak (plural parbreaks)

1. (archaic) Vomit; vomiting.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has

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