chunder
/ˈtʃʌndə
/informal, chiefly Australian /NZ
verb [no object]
Vomit.I am still haunted my the look of horror on my beloved's face as I chundered booze and party snacks over her billowing cleavage....
- A voice drifted down through the hatch above our heads, ‘I'm amazed,’ it said. ‘Only three people have chundered so far.’
- And in both cases there is the possibility that you'll end up in an alley behind the pub or club chundering in the gutter.
noun [mass noun]
Vomit.It is amazing, though, that even covered in vomit, only one person dared to complain; while others sat, reeking of chunder for nearly two hours as the train reached its destination....
- The whole van was covered in chunder, we had to stop for about an hour to just clean this thing out.
- Where does all this suave urbanity leave the true, ocker Aussie, the weathered stockman riding along in the outback with his trusty sheepdog, always ready for a few tinnies and a bloody good chunder?
Origin
1950s: probably from rhyming slang Chunder Loo 'spew', from the name of a cartoon character Chunder Loo of Akim Foo, who appeared in advertisements for Cobra boot polish in the Sydney Bulletin in the early 20th century.
Rhymes
- potato cyst nematode
- potato disease
- potato dumpling
- potato-eater
- potato eelworm
- potatoey
- potato eye
- potato failure
- potato famine
- potato fern
- potato flake
- potato fly
- potato fungus
- potato head
- potato-headed
- potato hook
- potato-ivory
- potato latke
- potato leafhopper
- potatoless
- potato loaf
- potato masher
- potato-mill
- potato mold
- potato moth