# Euphumisms for vomitting... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476 "2000-09-08T06:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/1 "2000-09-08T06:27:51Z")
Having spent the latter part of the afternoon and a portion of my evening worshipping at the porcelain altar I got to thinking about other descriptive terms for this sometimes unavoidable activity. FTR I have hypoglycemia and it was just one of those really bad days… you thought that I was out carousing perhaps? Anyways… puke, spew, hurl, upchuck, blow chunks (your dog?), and worshipping at the porcelain altar come easily to mind… ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/2 "2000-09-08T06:33:24Z")
Earl Ralph Technicolor Yawn Reverse Drinking ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/3 "2000-09-08T06:49:50Z")
Reverse drinking… I have to remember that one. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/4 "2000-09-08T06:51:10Z")
Projectile belching… Unable to forward: return to sender Getting reacquainted with your past Peristaltic palindrome Drastic Esophogeal Reflux Disease Forgetting you’re not a cow (gotta know cows for that one) Ricochet relay (more the frantic sprints _to_ the receptacle, but still…) (I was going to try to work the Pepsi Imp into one, but it sounded disturbingly like a euphemism for something else…the thought of which would be likely to _induce_ vomiting…does that count?) ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/5 "2000-09-08T08:47:48Z")
Barf Yak Toss cookies ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/6 "2000-09-08T10:18:33Z")
My 4yo son uses the phrase “yellow spillage” ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/7 "2000-09-08T11:43:12Z")
purge. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/8 "2000-09-08T12:15:29Z")
huck blow guts (blow your guts out) ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/9 "2000-09-08T12:21:42Z")
Talking to Ralph on the big, white telephone. ---
**Author:** ![BigRoryG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/10 "2000-09-08T12:24:35Z")
Prostrate oneself Go for gold I generally tend to use anything that it is not a word with an ‘ing’ and the end of it, some of my favourites include: Yuking Harumphing and Phreenowing ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/11 "2000-09-08T12:31:31Z")
I DONT know why, but when our first son was a baby, and he would spit up after every meal, one of us started calling it “bleck-ums”. Baby #2 is in my lap, and guess what??? Gotta go change my shirt again. –Tabithina ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/12 "2000-09-08T12:39:09Z")
Driving the porcelin bus. Urping. Feeding the fishes. ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/13 "2000-09-08T13:18:44Z")
Parking a tiger A pavement pizza ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/14 "2000-09-08T13:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > **Urping.** Hey! That’s my word! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/15 "2000-09-08T13:23:03Z")
Review Input on the kids level,there was “spitup” and “blorf” the ever popular “Heave” or “Dry Heaves” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/16 "2000-09-08T13:59:57Z")
Yodeling into the porcelein megaphone Laughing at your feet ---
**Author:** ![uberDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f04885/32.png) [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/17 "2000-09-08T14:08:04Z")
Sellin’ Buicks. Laughing at your shoes. Dibs on the big chunks. ---
**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henry)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/18 "2000-09-08T14:44:21Z")
Round trip meal ticket Pull (or do) a Daniel Boone ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/19 "2000-09-08T14:58:22Z")
worshipping the porcelein god upchuck ---
**Author:** ![Adolph\_Peewee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Adolph\_Peewee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adolph_Peewee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphumisms-for-vomitting/32476/20 "2000-09-08T15:10:16Z")
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