vom
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vom (uncountable)
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vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)
- (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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Etymology edit
From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.
Verb edit
vom first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative voami or voame, past participle vumutã)
- to vomit
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Danish edit
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vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)
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Further reading edit
- “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog
German edit
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Contraction edit
vom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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Etymology edit
From Old Norse vǫmb,[3] from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.
Noun edit
vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)
- (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
- (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
- (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly
Inflection edit
Historical inflection of vom
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. |
References edit
- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “Vaamb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “Vomb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- ^ “vom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
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(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)
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vom c
Declension edit
Declension of vom | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | vom | vommen | vommar | vommarna |
Genitive | voms | vommens | vommars | vommarnas |
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).
Noun edit
vom (nominative plural voms)
- woman (adult female human)