A FUN(?) One -- Vomit Syns

Not exactly what you're after, but one of my fave expressions for nausea is "the gorge rising", as in "he felt the gorge rising in his throat". It really captures that horrible feeling just before you're sick.

"Technicolor yawn."

The most common, polite, version years ago was upchuck.

The most descriptive I've heard used was "Four feet. No arc."

Jeff

Puke is a good word, and my favorite expression for it is: "laughing at the floor".

"being sick" or "being violently ill" are terms that are still used sometimes, but they have a sort of restrained, Victorian, mature person feel to them. I suspect these are the sorts of ways people "politely" referred to it in the earlier 20th century, when they mentioned it at all.
My folks always called it barfing, or simply vomiting if they were being ultra-technical or polite. "Upchucking" is something I remember some of my friends' parents using when I was a kid in the 70's, but I don't know how far that goes back. And of course the still-generic "throwing up" has been around for a long time.

In college, people used to jokeabout "talking on the white courtesy phone," "praying to the porcelain god" or "buying a Buick from a salesman named Ralph." And of course, there's the ever-lovely "blowing chunks."

While I realize this is more the verbal use than the noun that the OP requested, in Czech, the idiom is "Krmy Ryby", which means "Feed the Fishes". It can be used for either being seasick or just vomitting in general.

(and I apologize to our fellow Czech linguists if I mispelled it . . . been a few years since I had to type this.)

Hurl?

"Puke" goes back at least to Shakespeare. That "all the world's a stage" bit mentions the infant "mewling and puking in the nurse's arms", doesn't it?

Here we talk about "re-visiting" breakfast/lunch/dinner. Like, "He re-visited dinner on my bedroom floor".

I've heard a couple of very repressed doctors say "emit" or "disgorge", but I think they're the exception not the rule. Even in old-timey days, most would say "vomit".

The best I've ever heard: Bowing Low to the Porcelain King.

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Pavement Pizza (commonly found outside pubs)
Yark as in "he yarked all over the bedroom" or, in our house "Whanged up"
Blow chunks
Emptied his stomach

When I was in school people would say, "praying to Ralph" or "praying to the porcelain god"

Johnny's in bathroom, hanging onto the wheel with both hands
and driving the porcelain bus...

JohnnyGottaKeyboard said:

I was thinking along the lines of Gastro-esophogial-expectorate, only, y'know, funny and real.

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Don't know if it's funny, but it's real. Emesis. Medical term, used as chief complaint in emergency rooms.