barf
v : eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
throw up] [ant: keep down]
WordNet (r) 2.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "barf":
be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast,
choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta,
egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave,
heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, nausea, puke, regurgitate,
regurgitation, reject, retch, sick up, sicken at, spew, throw up,
upchuck, vomit, vomiting, vomition
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the
Valspeak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch. 2. vi. To
say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed him my
latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not
that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to work because of
unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not.
Examples: "The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0."
(That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by
zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some
unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if
you try to read in a new file before writing out the old one." See
choke, gag. In Commonwealth Hackish, `barf' is generally replaced by
`puke' or `vom'. barf is sometimes also used as a metasyntactic
variable, like foo or bar.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
barf
/barf/ [mainstream slang for "vomit"] 1. Term of disgust.
This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag
me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See bletch.
2. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust.
"I showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he
complained about it, not that he literally vomited.
3. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with
a suitable error message, perhaps not. Examples: "The
division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0." (That
is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by
zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to
fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The
text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before
writing out the old one".
See choke, gag.
In Commonwealth Hackish, "barf" is generally replaced by
"puke" or "vom". barf is sometimes also used as a
metasyntactic variable, like foo or bar.
(1996-02-26)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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