BARF - 11 definitions found
barf n 1: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus, puke, barf] v 1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down] barf frab barf "to vomit or retch,"1960, Amer.Eng. slang, probably onomatopoeic. Barf bag "air sickness pouch" attested from 1966. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) barf intransitive verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1956 vomit Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary barf (barfs, barfing, barfed) If someone barfs, they vomit. (mainly AM INFORMAL) VERB English Explanatory Dictionary barf v. & n. sl. --v.intr. vomit or retch. --n. an attack of vomiting. [20th c.: orig. unkn.] Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary BARF Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary barf Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1. interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. vi. 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. vi. 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. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 36 Moby Thesaurus words for "barf": be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast, choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta, egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave, heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, nausea, puke, regurgitate, regurgitation, reject, retch, sick up, sicken at, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomiting, vomition |
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