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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  barf
       v : eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
           drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
           continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
           him last night" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit up}, {purge}, {cast},
            {sick}, {cat}, {be sick}, {disgorge}, {regorge}, {retch},


            {puke}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck}, {honk}, {regurgitate},
            {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "barf":
     be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, cascade, cast,
     choke on, chuck up, disgorge, disgorgement, egest, egesta,
     egestion, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, gagging, heave,
     heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, keck, nausea, puke, regurgitate,
     regurgitation, reject, retch, sick up, sicken at, spew, throw up,
     upchuck, vomit, vomiting, vomition
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
     interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the
     Valspeak "gag me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!) See {bletch}. 2. vi. To
     say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust. "I showed him my
     latest hack and he barfed" means only that he complained about it, not
     that he literally vomited. 3. vi. To fail to work because of
     unacceptable input, perhaps with a suitable error message, perhaps not.
     Examples: "The division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0."
     (That is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by
     zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to fail in some
     unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The text editor barfs if
     you try to read in a new file before writing out the old one." See
     {choke}, {gag}. In Commonwealth Hackish, `barf' is generally replaced by
     `puke' or `vom'. {barf} is sometimes also used as a {metasyntactic
     variable}, like {foo} or {bar}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  barf
       
          /barf/ [mainstream slang for "vomit"] 1.  Term of disgust.
          This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag
          me with a spoon". (Like, euwww!)  See {bletch}.
       
          2. To say "Barf!" or emit some similar expression of disgust.
          "I showed him my latest hack and he barfed" means only that he
          complained about it, not that he literally vomited.
       
          3. To fail to work because of unacceptable input, perhaps with
          a suitable error message, perhaps not.  Examples: "The
          division operation barfs if you try to divide by 0."  (That
          is, the division operation checks for an attempt to divide by
          zero, and if one is encountered it causes the operation to
          fail in some unspecified, but generally obvious, manner.) "The
          text editor barfs if you try to read in a new file before
          writing out the old one".
       
          See {choke}, {gag}.
       
          In Commonwealth Hackish, "barf" is generally replaced by
          "puke" or "vom".  {barf} is sometimes also used as a
          {metasyntactic variable}, like {foo} or {bar}.
       
          (1996-02-26)
       
       

















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