You know, for photos that just make him want to barf, like gay couples kissing.
On being asked who he was, the occupant stood up and replied in a Cockney voice: "Sikey at the barf!"
Phillips says that it is equivalent to 'barf,' and means 'a detached hill.'
"I ain't had a barf since Gravesend," said Dickie, and flushed at the indiscretion.
Yes, yes; barf is as happy as a boy now, but I remember when he was back-set and fore-set with trouble.
barf Latrigg was sixty then, turning a bit gray, but able to shear with any man they could put against him.
barf had lost his sight when I got there; but he knew my voice, and he asked me to lay my face against his face.
Charlotte, I have been coming to barf Latrigg's shearings for about half a century.
barf's married daughters had their portions long ago, but he left each of them three hundred pounds as a good-will token.
barf Latrigg is ageing fast now; he was my father's crony; if I slighted him, I should feel as if father knew about it.
"to vomit or retch,"1960, American English slang, probably imitative. Related: Barfed; barfing. As a noun, from 1966. Barf bag "air sickness pouch" attested from 1966.
interjection
An exclamation of strong disgust: You want to know what I think of it? Barf! (1970s+)
verb
[Computer 1980s+; probably echoic]
/barf/ [mainstream slang for "vomit"] 1. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch.
2. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not that he literally vomited.
3. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not. Examples: "The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before writing out the old one".
See choke, gag.
In Commonwealth Hackish, "barf" is generally replaced by "puke" or "vom". barf is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic variable, like foo or bar.
(1996-02-26)
