chunder

== English == === Pronunciation === (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtʃandə/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈtʃɐndə/ (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ) Hyphenation: chun‧der === Etymology 1 === Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950. ==== Noun ==== chunder (countable and uncountable, plural chunders) (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) Vomit. [from 1950.] (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) An act of vomiting. Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult. ===== Synonyms ===== See Thesaurus:vomit ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== chunder (third-person singular simple present chunders, present participle chundering, simple past and past participle chundered) (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption. 2008, Isabelle Young, Tony Gherardin, Central and South America, Lonely Planet, page 70, There are plenty of winding roads, diesel fumes, crowded public transport and various less than sweet odours to get you chundering when you′re on the move in this part of the world, so take a good supply of motion sickness remedies if you know you′re susceptible to this. ===== Synonyms ===== See Thesaurus:regurgitate ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Perhaps by confusion with chunter. ==== Alternative forms ==== junder ==== Verb ==== chunder (third-person singular simple present chunders, present participle chundering, simple past and past participle chundered) Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar. (New England) To grumble, complain. === Anagrams === churned, duncher, runched