pukey

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.

   • The walls in this abandoned waiting area were painted a pukey orange, compounding the feeling of queasiness I'd had since breakfast.
2. 2

   Inclined to vomit

   Inclined to vomit; sick.

   • His heart was thumping harder than ever, and it was impossible to tell if the sickish, pukey feeling deep down in his belly was relief or terror.
   • There's no way he'd allow a dog on his couch or on his 500-thread-count sheets, let alone a pukey baby.
3. 3

   Vile

   Vile; contemptible.

   • Biocky, unimaginative, and the pukey colour scheme has you searching out those Blues Brothers sun-glasses you bought on holiday last year, just before they went out of fashion.
   • He called Mikkel a pukey little faggot. I'll kick him again when I can get at him.
   • […] it's nothing more than a pukey little garrison town in the middle of nowhere.

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