vom

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See also: VOM and vòm

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of vomit.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vom (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Vomit.

Verb

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vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

  1. (informal) To vomit.
    • 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 185:
      Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.
    • 2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer:
      Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

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vom first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative voami or voame, past participle vumutã)

  1. to vomit
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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vǫmb.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

  1. belly
  2. paunch

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German

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Pronunciation

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Contraction

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vom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

  1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vǫmb,[3] from Proto-Germanic *wambō (belly; womb). Cognates include English womb.

Noun

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vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

  1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
  2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
  3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly

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References

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  1. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vaamb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  2. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vomb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[2] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  3. ^ “vom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

  1. (we) will
    Vom lua prânzul la ora douăsprezece.
    We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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vom c

  1. a rumen, a paunch (the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants)

Declension

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Declension of vom 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vom vommen vommar vommarna
Genitive voms vommens vommars vommarnas

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Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).

Noun

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vom (nominative plural voms)

  1. woman (adult female human)

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