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pukey

American  
[pyoo-kee] / ˈpju ki /
Or puky

adjective

pukier, pukiest
  1. on the verge of vomiting; nauseated.

  2. disgusting; repellent.


Etymology

Origin of pukey

First recorded in 1860–65; puke + -y 1


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

My stomach went back and forth between starving and pukey.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

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