vom

See also: VOM and vòm

English

Etymology

Clipping of vomit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɒm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vom (uncountable)

1. (informal) Vomit.

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.

   • 2025 January 23, Sam Shanker, “Baby Kangaroos and Chickens” (9:39 from the start), in Animal Control‎, 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!”

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:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Contraction

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

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