pukey
English
Adjective
pukey (comparative more pukey, superlative most pukey)
- (informal) Resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.
- 2007, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, Foreign Exposure: The Social Climber Abroad:
- The walls in this abandoned waiting area were painted a pukey orange, compounding the feeling of queasiness I'd had since breakfast.
- 2007, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, Foreign Exposure: The Social Climber Abroad:
- (informal) Inclined to vomit; sick.
- 2005, Rebecca Eckler, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be:
- There's no way he'd allow a dog on his couch or on his 500-thread-count sheets, let alone a pukey baby.
- 2005, Rebecca Eckler, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be:
- (informal) Vile; contemptible.
- 2003, Guy Davenport, The Death of Picasso:
- He called Mikkel a pukey little faggot. I'll kick him again when I can get at him.
- 2007, Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium:
- ...it's nothing more than a pukey little garrison town in the middle of nowhere.
- 2003, Guy Davenport, The Death of Picasso:
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