Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)

From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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 Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [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}. In Commonwealth Hackish, barf is generally replaced by
     `puke' or `vom'. {barf} is sometimes also used as a {metasyntactic
     variable}, like {foo} or {bar}.
  

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