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
And as every kid with a multi-pack of Play-Doh learned early on: If you don’t keep things separate, and instead mix every color in the rainbow together, you get a muddy, pukey, gray-brown.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2016
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
I thought about my sour, shaky stomach that lurched between feeling starving and feeling pukey.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
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