throwing up my socks

[Jonathan Lighter]

1892 _Dialect Notes_ V 233: "To throw up one's socks" = to vomit vehemently and copiously.

  Also "...boots."

  The idea is that you're throwing up everything from _way_ down.  Like "throwing up one's very socks."

  JL

Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM> wrote:
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"puke up our socks" gets a hit from MO. in 1897, using Newspaper archive.

Sam Clements
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> I'm 53 from Dubuque, Iowa and have heard the phrase. Substituting 'barf'
> or 'puke' for 'throw up" yields more hits.
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> Bill Le May
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