chunder

chunder
vb
Australian
to vomit. This term, in use among Aus-tralian surfies and others in the 1960s, was imported into Britain later in the dec-ade by the strip cartoon The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. The writer, Barry Humphries, derives it from the warning cry 'Watch under!', perhaps used by sail-ors. An alternative derivation is from 'Chunder Loo' as rhyming slang for spew, from the name of a character used in advertisements for boot polish fifty years earlier. Already established in Britain, especially among young sportsmen and drinkers, there are signs that this and other Australianisms are making head-way in the USA following the success of the Australian comedy film Crocodile Dundee in 1987.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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