# Magical Term for Barfing Up Slugs **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614 "2002-11-25T07:01:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/1 "2002-11-25T07:01:57Z")
I just watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where Ron Weasley accidentally makes himself barf up slugs. My question is, what’s the term for when a magician makes someone cough up things? You see this a lot in stories about witchcraft, such as in Witches of Eastwick or in the X-Files episode Sanguinarium. I know there’s a word for this, but I don’t remember what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/2 "2002-11-25T10:53:34Z")
_Vomitus malefactum!_ ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/3 "2002-11-25T12:41:10Z")
UURRRRP!!! Damn you, **Jomo**! ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/4 "2002-11-25T17:07:53Z")
Regurgitation? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/5 "2002-11-25T17:53:12Z")
Disgusting? ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/6 "2002-11-25T17:56:18Z")
postlimaxingestus? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/7 "2002-11-25T17:58:58Z")
I don’t know the technical term, but mages that are particularly good at it are prized for their slugging percentage. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/8 "2002-11-25T20:35:39Z")
Nitpick-- If you’re referring to Nurse Waite in that X-Files episode, she doesn’t cough up slugs. She coughs up straight pins. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/9 "2002-11-25T21:00:00Z")
I just have to say that that was a truly disturbing scene in the Harry Potter movie. I had just had a big meal, and that DIDN’T help me digest it! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/10 "2002-11-25T21:05:13Z")
May I suggest, in the special case of slugs: _vomitus signorinum_? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/11 "2002-11-25T21:52:15Z")
prestiregurgitation? ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/12 "2002-11-26T05:32:03Z")
I think you’re not getting the point here. Let me use an _obliviate_ charm to make you all forget I mentioned Ron barfing up slugs. I had two other perfectly good examples of what I was talking about, which was: What is the term for when a magician makes someone cough up **anything?** ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/13 "2002-11-26T12:18:00Z")
Well, sorry. But you did mention slugs in the thread title. I don’t think there is a term for a magician causing regurgitation. Even if it were possible, I don’t think it has happened so frequently that someone made up a name for it. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-term-for-barfing-up-slugs/138614/14 "2002-11-26T13:40:03Z")
What makes you think there is a specific term for this?