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Clipping of vomit.

vom (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Vomit.

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

  1. (informal) To vomit.

    • 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 185:

      Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.

    • 2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer:

      Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.

From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

vom first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative voami or voame, past participle vumutã)

  1. to vomit

From Old Norse vǫmb.

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

  1. belly
  2. paunch

vom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

  1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

From Old Norse vǫmb,[3] from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.

vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

  1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
  2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
  3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly
Historical inflection of vom
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
Aasen1 Vomb Vombi Vember Vemberna
1901 vember (vembar) vemberne (vembane)
1917 vomb, vom vomba, vombi, vomma, vommi vember, vemmer vembene2 vemberne, vemmene
1938 vom vomma [vommi] vemmer vemmene
1962 vemmer, vommer vemmene, vommene
2012 (current) vom vomma vommer vommene
  • Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
  • Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
  • Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
  • 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form was allowed for schoolchildren already in 1910.
  1. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vaamb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  2. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “Vomb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎[2] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  3. ^ “vom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

  1. (we) will
    Vom lua prânzul la ora douăsprezece.
    We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

vom c

  1. a rumen, a paunch (the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants)

Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).

vom (nominative plural voms)

  1. woman (adult female human)