parbreak meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

parbreak

verb

UK /pɑːˈbɹeɪk/ · US /pɑɹˈbɹeɪk/

Etymology From Middle French par- + brake.

Obsolete To vomit, spew out.

What have ye, villayn, forged, And virulently dysgorged As though ye wolde parbrakea. 1539, John Skelton, How the Duke of Albany […] :

noun

Etymology From Middle French par- + brake.

Archaic Vomit; vomiting.

Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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