The word "vomit" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the involuntary regurgitation of the contents of the stomach in a typically unpleasant form. For example: "The smell of the spoiled food caused him to vomit."
"The dead die hard," is how "Echo's Bones" begins, and here is Belacqua, "who now found himself up and about in the dust of the world, back at his old games on the dim spot"; "sat double on a fence like a casse-poitrine", smoking a Romeo and Juliet and wondering whether "if he had been cremated rather than inhumed directly he would have been less likely to revisit the vomit".
A PHE spokesman said: "It is important to remember that as yet, there has not been a case of Ebola diagnosed in the UK and the infection can only be transmitted through contact with the body fluids, such as blood, vomit or faeces, of an infected person.
Outlining the nature of the allegations, Smith told the inquiry that as well as making children eat vomit when they were ill, nuns used sticks, straps and kettle flexes to beat their young charges.
We all know that Britain has a problem: the binge-drinking, the brawling, the town centres filled with vomit on Saturday nights, the courtrooms packed with alcohol-related crimes.
"I had lower back spasms and I would vomit often," he tells me.
More often they vomit, especially when the heat is worse.
It can make your heart feel as if it is racing, and you may succumb to "negative self-talk", convincing yourself you are going to fail, vomit or freak out.
And in 2015: "Hey, maybe the new Cadbury's Creme Eggs won't basically taste like awful pellets of chalky vomit".
She looks like she might be about to vomit.
On Monday the senior counsel for the inquiry, which is headed up by retired judge Sir Anthony Hart, said children were forced to eat their own vomit as a punishment for being ill at Temonbacca and St Joseph's homes in Derry.
Readers would have been able then to connect the vomit with that which dogs are said to return to, "exuviae" is easily inferrable from context, and "randy pollen" is wonderful; but would many have known that "caisse-poitrine" is not only the French phrase for "rot-gut", as in cheap booze, but also – as the footnotes helpfully tell us – slang for "the active partner in homosexual fellatio"?
