Suppose you were told that a passage of twenty-eight lines contains the following expressions: "mewling and puking," "whining schoolboy," "satchel," "sighing like furnace," "round belly," "spectacles on nose," "shrunk shank," "sans [without] teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

when he wakes you'll see how he will crow, And fill the place with laughterhe's no girl, Puking and mewling evermorenot he.

"In the course of my practice, I have had frequent occasion to be fully satisfied of this; and have often heard a mother anxiously say, 'the child has not been well ever since it has done puking and crying.'

[Med.], puke, barf

embowel^, disbowel^, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate^; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate^. vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck^, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god.

He told them about Chapman and Puke and Trolle; of Hoagland and Svensksundall the way along until 1809after that he had not been there.

I have said I would not speak of the inconveniences to arise from woman suffrageI care notwhether the mother is called upon to decide as a juryman or jury-woman rights of property or rights of life, whilst her baby is "mewling and puking" in solitary confinement at home.

Thenceforth the Missourians were called "Pukes," and the people of Illinois "Suckers.

"The searching Wine has sprung the Rheumatism in my Right Hand, my Head aches, my Stomach pukes."

It digs, pukes, undermines for life.

Only think of it,that a puling, puking idiot like that, from a mere freak, should be able to do a man such a mischief!

Jack scowled an awful scowl, and if he called them "pukes" with a few swear words added, it was a mild way of pouring out his anger.

In Otago Lake Wakatipu becomes anything, from "Wokkertip" to "Wackatipoo"; and I have heard a cultured man speak of Puke-tapu as "Buck-a-tap.

Defeat at Puke-te-kauere, 273.

People puke at the shams till they think the originals ain't no great shakes. 'Tain't fair, CHARLIE, not by a jugful, but anger's all fiddle-de-dee; They may copy my style till all's blue, but they won't discombobulate me.