hurl
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hurl
- /hɜːl/ Australia, UK
- /hɝl/ US
- /høːl/ New Zealand, Wales
- /hʌɾl/ Scotland
- /heːl/
- /hɛːl/
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)l
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.
verb hurls · hurling · hurled
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To throw (something) with force.
Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony
And bishops three times married, thy cathedrals
The Seats where Prayer and hospitality
Should dwel, shall be the taverns
Where Drunken bowles incessantly goe round
In leud debauch and midnight dice are hurld,
The beds wherein the wearied Pilgrim
Similar: chuck, fling, bung, cast, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk, heave, hield
- To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
- To participate in the sport of hurling. Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.
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To vomit.
I shake and bake the world
Rearrange like the chemical Jheri curl, drink til I hurl
Similar: throw up, bait, barf, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god, cast, cast up one's accounts
- To twist or turn. On Nicias a philosopher having his shoes stolen from him, may they, said he, fit his feet that took them away. A wish at the first view very harmless, but there was that in it which poisoned his charity into a malicious revenge. For he himself had hurled or crooked feet, so that in effect he wished
- To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
- To convey in a wheeled vehicle.
noun hurls
- A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
- The act of vomiting. Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl.
- Vomit. WAYNE: What I'd really like to do is something extraordinary. Something big. […] But I'll probably end up working at Great America, mopping up hurl and lung butter.
- The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
- A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc. Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity.
- Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
- A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
Translations
Talk about this word "hurl." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hurl. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. hurl. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hurl "hurl." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hurl.Cite this
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