hurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːl/
ipa: /hɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: hurls
form: hurling
form: hurled
form: hurled
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.
Senses: examples: text: 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 us’d
To ease his crippled Limbs, he now shall find
Possess’t with Women, nurses, she attandants,
And a Dishonest brood of ugly children.
ref: a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Fragment”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, pages 720–721:
text: I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter IV:
text: The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: chuck
word: fling
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw (something) with force.
examples: text: The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
text: Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
ref: 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:
text: Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!"
ref: 1984, New International Version of the Bible, Mark 15:29-30:
text: It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement.
ref: 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football:
glosses: To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011 August 3, Donnchadh Boyle, “Egan targets Rebel success to rescue poor season”, in Irish Independent:
glosses: To participate in the sport of hurling.
examples: text: I shake and bake the world
Rearrange like the chemical Jheri curl, drink til I hurl
ref: 1995, Nine, “Da Fundamentalz”, in Nine Livez:
synonyms: word: throw up
word: bait
word: barf
word: be sick
word: blow chunks
word: boak
word: boke
word: boot
word: bork
word: bow down before the porcelain god
word: cast
word: cast up one's accounts
word: chuck
word: chuck up
word: chunder
word: disgorge
word: drive the porcelain bus
word: erupt
word: gag
word: get sick
word: heave
word: honk
word: hurl
word: launch one's lunch
word: lose one's lunch
word: pray to the porcelain god
word: puke
word: puke up
word: purge
word: ralph
word: regurge
word: regurgitate
word: retch
word: shoot the cat
word: sick
word: sick up
word: spew
word: talk to God on the big white telephone
word: talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
word: throw up
word: toss
word: toss one's cookies
word: upchuck
word: vomit
word: woof one's cookies
word: whoops
word: worship the porcelain god
word: worship the porcelain goddess
word: yak
glosses: To vomit.
examples: text: 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 the thief to be lame.
ref: 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times:
glosses: To twist or turn.
glosses: To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
glosses: To convey in a wheeled vehicle.
Derived terms: hurl chunks
hurler
hurly-hacket
outhurl
thirl
unhurled
uphurl