Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To vomit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bargh.

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  • noun US, colloquial vomit
  • verb US, colloquial To vomit.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the matter ejected in vomiting
  • verb eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably imitative.]

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Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.

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  • Bark + Arf

    October 24, 2008

  • Means "snow" in Farsi.

    September 6, 2010

  • The word in Persian for "snow" does not sound like "barf" (to throw up.)

    Listen to pronunciation.

    September 6, 2010

  • *throws barfball at frogapplause*

    September 6, 2010

  • *Hahork*

    September 6, 2010

  • *HORK*

    September 11, 2010

  • dontcry horking like it's 1999

    September 11, 2010

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    September 14, 2011

  • I like release at the bottom of that list. It's very demure, in a Britsh kind of way.

    - How was your evening at the gentleman's club, Withers?

    + Capital. After several hours of conviviality I found considerable release.

    September 14, 2011

  • to vomit or toss your cookies

    September 15, 2011

  • according to twitter, Farsi and Hindi word for snow.

    November 6, 2017