vom

See also: VOM and vòm

English

Etymology

Clipping of vomit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɒm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

vom (usually uncountable, plural voms)

1. (informal) Vomit.
   • 2025 January 23, Sam Shanker, “Baby Kangaroos and Chickens” (9:39 from the start), in Animal Control‎^[3], season 3, episode 4, spoken by Emily Price (Vella Lovell):

     “Okay, boss. Boss. You're short-circuiting. We wrote great jokes. Stay the course.” “Absolutely. Yeah, you're right. Um... yeah. I'm gonna make a pit stop at the bathroom for a quick vom. And then, yeah, I'll be right back.” “That's my girl!”

Verb

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.

   • 2013 March 12, Betches, Nice Is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything‎^[4], illustrated edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     People will know exactly where you are and how much fun you're currently having, while they are at home stalking you. A mupload screams, I'm too cool for Facebook albums, but my life is just too fabulous to not share this pic of my best betch vomming in her own bag!

Interjection

vom

1. (informal) An exclamation of disgust.
   • 2016 January 9, Sam Wollaston, “The Voice review – nonsense with laughs”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     Someone brings their cute kid on stage with them, sings with it. Boo, hiss, yuck, vom; cute kids belong at home and in soft-play centres, they have no place on stages.

   • 2022, Miles Woods, “Popularity: Origin of Evil”, in Little Demon, season 1, episode 4:

     CHRISSY: Gonna show you how to remove soft tissue from the hide.
     LAURA: Ugh, vom.

Anagrams

• MOV, OMV, mov.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vomu, zvom, zvomu

Etymology

From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

vom (third-person singular voami or voame, participle vumutã)

1. to vomit

Related terms

• voamiri / voamire, vumeari / vumeare, vumeri
• vumut

See also

• versu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔm/, [vʌmˀ]

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

1. belly
2. paunch

Declension

Declension of vom

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vom	vommen	vomme	vommene
genitive	voms	vommens	vommes	vommenes

Derived terms

• vommet

Further reading

• “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔm/, [fɔm]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Contraction

vom [with adjective ending with -en and masculine or neuter noun]

1. contraction of von +‎ dem, literally “from the, of the”

Middle English

Noun

vom

1. (Herefordshire) alternative form of fom

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Vaamb, Vomb, vomb

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Inflection

Historical inflection of vom

		singular		plural
		indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
Aasen1		Vomb	Vombi	Vember	Vemberna
1901				vember (vembar)	vemberne (vembane)
1917		vomb, vom	vomba, vombi, vomma, vommi	vember, vemmer	vembene2 vemberne, vemmene
1938		vom	vomma [vommi]	vemmer	vemmene
1962				vemmer, vommer	vemmene, vommene
2012 (current)		vom	vomma	vommer	vommene

• Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
• Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
• Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
• ¹Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. ²Form was allowed for schoolchildren already in 1910.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vom]

Verb

(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

Alternative forms

• våm

Noun

vom c

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

Declension

Declension of vom

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vom	voms
	definite	vommen	vommens
plural	indefinite	vommar	vommars
	definite	vommarna	vommarnas

See also

• nätmage (“reticulum, bonnet”)
• bladmage (“omasum, psalterium, manyplies”)
• löpmage (“abomasum, reed”)

References

• “vom”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “vom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “vom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Volapük

Etymology

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

Noun

vom (genitive voma, plural voms)

1. woman (adult female human)

Declension

Declension of vom

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vom	voms
Genitive	voma	vomas
Dative	vome	vomes
Accusative	vomi	vomis
Predicative1	vomu	vomus
Vocative	o vom	o voms

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Hypernyms

• men
• nim

Coordinate terms

• man

Derived terms

• vomajit
• vomakleud
• vomef
• vomidek
• vomik
• vomil
• vomöf
• vomöfik
• vomül

Further reading

• “vom”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)