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chunder

noun
/ˈtʃandə//ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950.

  1. borrowed from *junder✻

Definitions

  1. Vomit.

    • I had puke streamers hanging from both nostrils; it wasn′t as watery as my chunder usually is (from drinking).

  2. An act of vomiting.

  3. Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption.

      • I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder / Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? / You better run, you better take cover
      • “You might have chundered,” said Kate, laughing, “but at least you didn′t get any on yourself—sign of a true lady.”

    2. Of a motor vehicle

      Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.

      • The truck chundered and rattled.
      • As their rented van chunders along the highway, John′s voiceover is heard, contemplating the compulsion that drives men to continue using juvenile punk monikers into their mid-thirties.
      • He taxied his plane carefully to the end of the strip and then went further on, into the rough grass. Then, with full flap and maximum throttle, he came chundering along towards us.

    3. To grumble, complain.

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Derived

chunderhead, chunderous

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chunder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA