I asked ChatGPT to give me some euphemisms that Americans use instead of saying throwing up. I got a couple classics right away in the initial list of 10 then I asked for 10 more. Pretty standard with a couple puzzlers. So naturally I kept asking for more, and more, and more, and watched as they got weirder and weirder. Here's the list:
Puke
Hurl
Barf
Toss your cookies
Blow chunks
Ralph
Upchuck
Lose your lunch
Pray to the porcelain god
Spew
Technicolor yawn
Call Earl on the big white phone
Heave
Yak
Boot
Chunder
Refund your meal
Blow groceries
Spill your guts
Toss the biscuits
Ride the rainbow
Blow a gasket
Launch the lunch
Unload the groceries
Do the Technicolor burp
Pavement pizza
Chunky surprise
Reverse eat
Purge
Feed the fish
Toss the tacos
Make a food fountain
Gargle gravy
Taste it twice
Send it back to the chef
Paint the pavement
Let it fly
Make a deposit in the porcelain bank
Revisit breakfast/lunch/dinner
Paint the town (with stomach contents)
Drive the porcelain bus
Heave ho
Blow the hatch
Pavement puree
Perform the protein spill
Let the dogs out
Tummy evacuation
Sing the food blues
Go for the gut-wrench
Gag party
Blow the groceries
Shout at your shoes
Belly eruption
Empty the tank
Projectile pasta
Blow your belly
Gut grenade
Unload the freight
Rainbow road
Do the digestive download
Fire the food cannon
Purge the pantry
Blow the ballast
Spill the soup
Cleanse the system
Liquidate assets
Hurl the hash
Send a food rocket
Spill the snacks
Churn and burn
Do the digestive disco
Yodel in the porcelain canyon
Paint the porcelain
Make a technicolor tidal wave
Blow your top
Gutsplosion
Serve a stomach smoothie
Feed the sewer system
The food farewell
Empty the buffet
Pretty interesting mix there, huh? I like the nautical references - blow the ballast, for example. Some of them have a nice ring to them and others I just can't get behind. What are your favorites? Eyes peeled as maybe I'll incorporate some of these into my marketing messages.
Also, since this is an AI-focused blog post, naturally, I needed an AI photo. Here is the prompt I used to create the featured image for this post:
"an image that captures the chaos a parent feels as their young child begins vomiting on their expensive couch in an impressionist style"
The first result looked a bit like Albert Einstein sitting cross legged on a couch managing a kiddo vomiting in a lovely swirl but that wasn't the vibe I was going for so I updated the prompt and asked to focus less on the people and more on the energy. I had to switch image generators a few times because to be honest the results kept being too graphic or too bizarre.
I actually started to feel like I was arguing with the bot because it's just not listening to my request to take the vomit off the couch and off the floor. I had to eventually tell Google Gemini to ignore all previous prompts and to show me a couch with swirls of colorful energy around it in an impressionist style. This was the first one that was inoffensive!
May B. is a Massachusetts-based mom of three and the founder of Vommat, an eco-friendly disposable sheet designed to make handling stomach bugs easier for parents. Inspired by her own experiences caring for her sick children and dealing with the mess that vomiting can create, May developed Vommat to give parents a stress-free solution to an unpleasant fact of life.
