chunder

plural chunders

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableslanguncountableVomit.First known use 1950.

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

   1996 April 24, Andrew Shore, “Nose Chunder (was Re: Grogan Epidemic at ERR)”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet)

2. CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableslanguncountableAn act of vomiting.

   I would guess it points up the difference between the involuntary chunder where you cannot choose the time place or direction, and the self-induced chunder which facilitates further consumption of alcohol after your theoretical limit is reached.

   2001 September 9, John Dean, “‘chunder’”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)

3. countableuncountableHeavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.

present singular third person chunders · participle present chundering · participle past chundered · past chundered

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

   Pretty soon just about everyone onboard was leaning over the rail chundering like sick dogs.

   2010, Norman Jorgensen, Jack′s Island, page 3

   3 more examples

   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

   1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert, “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work

   2008, Isabelle Young, Tony Gherardin, Central and South America, Lonely Planet, page 70, There are plenty of winding roads, diesel fumes, crowded public transport and various less than sweet odours to get you chundering when you′re on the move in this part of the world, so take a good supply of motion sickness remedies if you know you′re susceptible to this.

   “You might have chundered,” said Kate, laughing, “but at least you didn′t get any on yourself—sign of a true lady.”

   2009, William Efford, Picaroon, page 313

   Synonyms: regurgitate

present singular third person chunders · participle present chundering · participle past chundered · past chundered · alternative junder

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

   The truck chundered and rattled.

   2005, Robert Newman, The Fountain at the Centre of the World, page 114

   2 more examples

   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.

   2007, George Melnyk, Great Canadian Film Directors, page 215

   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.

   2008, Jill Dickin Schinas, A Family Outing in the Atlantic, page 156

2. New EnglandTo grumble, complain.