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chunder en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈtʃandə/ (Australia)
• /ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/ (UK)
• /ˈtʃɐndə/ (New-Zealand)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950.

Meanings

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable) Vomit.
   • 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. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable) An 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. (countable, uncountable) Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.

Forms

Deriveds

chunderous · chunderhead

Synonyms

vomit

Translations (5)

pl wymiotować (vomit) · sv spya (vomit) · fi oksennus (vomit) · pl rzygać (vomit) · sv kräk (vomit)

chunder en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈtʃandə/ (Australia)
• /ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/ (UK)
• /ˈtʃɐndə/ (New-Zealand)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950.

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang) To 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:
   • 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:
   • “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:
   • 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.

Forms

Synonyms

regurgitate

Translations (6)

sv kräkas (to vomit) · sv spy (to vomit) · fi oksentaa (to vomit) · fr vomir (to vomit) · gl vomitar (to vomit) · pt chamar o hugo (to vomit)

chunder en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈtʃandə/ (Australia)
• /ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/ (UK)
• /ˈtʃɐndə/ (New-Zealand)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Perhaps by confusion with chunter.

Meanings

1. Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • The truck chundered and rattled. 2005, Robert Newman, The Fountain at the Centre of the World, page 114:
2. (New-England) To grumble, complain.

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