ralph
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of ralph
7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (slang)To vomit.
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verb
- (slang)To vomit.
noun
- (UK, obsolete, regional)A raven.
name
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A male given name from the Germanic languages.
“There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory: / The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly”
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
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(slang)Fictional person used in references to vomiting.
“He's outside calling Ralph [i.e. vomiting].”
- An unincorporated community in Harding County, South Dakota, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia, United States.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
US 1960s, of uncertain origin, apparently derived from a use of the male name Ralph, but perhaps imitative.
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