upchuck

[Alan H. Hartley]

Mike Cleven wrote:
>
> on the subject of Chinook words finding their way into widespread
> English - e.g. hooch, the sticks - I thought of this word, which maybe
> even was a witty pun on "throw up" in hybrid Jargon-English

I was surprised that the OED's earliest record is for 1960. It probably
comes from the verb CHUCK (first recorded in the 16th c., prob. of
onomatopoeic origin), as in CHUCK OUT 'eject.'

Alan