parbreak
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French par- + brake.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
parbreak (third-person singular simple present parbreaks, present participle parbreaking, simple past and past participle parbreaked)
- (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 edit
parbreak (plural parbreaks)
- (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