pukey
AmericanEtymology
Origin of pukey
Example Sentences
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“I get really pukey before the matches,” White said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2023
Mary MacLeod was raised in the little village of Tong, among low-rise garrison-style homes "finished in pukey pebble-dash", as one Lewis writer puts it.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2016
It had been a pretty pukey tour of I can’t remember where but going all Exorcist while running into bowl was a whole new level.
From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2015
“It’s not as if anything in all of pukey human history has ever changed because some painfully brilliant person wrote down their ideas,” a narrator says in her second collection of stories, “Liberty’s Excess.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2015
“Win one for The Gipper” like some pukey late-night movie?
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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