Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈtʃandə/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
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/ˈtʃɐndə/
Pronunciation notes
- New-Zealand
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/ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
Vomit.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- UK usage
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
- Examples
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I had puke streamers hanging from both nostrils; it wasn′t as watery as my chunder usually is (from drinking).
An act of vomiting.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- UK usage
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
- Examples
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More examples (1)
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.
Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Verb
To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption.
Usage- Australia
- New-Zealand
- UK usage
- Slang
- Synonyms
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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
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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.”
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Pretty soon just about everyone onboard was leaning over the rail chundering like sick dogs.
Verb
Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.
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The truck chundered and rattled.
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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.
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.
To grumble, complain.
Usage- New-England