I urged/It's making me urge

[Mouse]

I've got a horrible feeling this is a west country thing.

I have this line: He urged and looked away quickly. After a character's seen a severed hand.

So, 'urging' is that half-gagging/non-puking thing people do when they've seen something gross. It's an actual word, right? I'd say, 'it's making me urge' if I was watching, for example, those "celebs" eating testicles on I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!

I've just Googled 'urge' but it doesn't come up with the meaning I want. I Googled 'making me urge' and the only result that matches my meaning is from a girl from Devon on Twitter.

Tell me you all know that urging means almost-puking-but-not-puking.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Never heard of it, my friend. Not in that context. I'd use he swallowed bile but hey, you knew that!

 

[AnyaKimlin]

dry retch is the phrase I have just this minute used in a scene lol Never heard of urge but I do rather like it.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'd say gag or retch. Like springs and Anya, I've never heard urge used in that way, and it would have confused me if I did see it.

 

[Glitch]

Feeling the urge to throw up, he looked away quickly?

Other common words for 'throwing up' - hurl, puke, barf, spew. The internet is a wonderful place!

 

[nightdreamer]

Neither have I ever heard that usage, and I was born in Indiana where they say "warsh" for "wash."

 

[chrispenycate]

No, the only use I know for 'urge' as a verb is to encourage someone (or occasionally something) to do something. You might be urged to take your medicine, but rarely to give it back.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

I wonder if it comes from "urge to puke" which is a phrase I have heard and used.

 

[Fishbowl Helmet]

As a verb 'urge' needs an object. He urged her to do something. He felt the urge to do something. I've never heard it as you want to use it.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Never heard it that way. I would say "gagged" in that instance.

 

[JonH]

Sorry,

I've lived in a few places around the UK and haven't heard of it. It's probably dialect.

So we've all learned a new word.

 

[Parson]

I believe urge is a pure noun. --- There a related term "purge." Which is used for up-chucking on purpose to rid yourself of something.

 

[tinkerdan]

There is gagged but gag has an urban meaning also.
Oddly urban dictionary has hurk or hurked for the cat regurgitation thing.
There is also some odd other urban meaning for it.
Maybe your urged person was reaching for hurked and missed.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

There is gagged but gag has an urban meaning also.

Just about everything has an urban meaning ... and it's usually something embarrassing.

 

[Alex The G and T]

I've heard "Gurge" in California; for wanting to , or partially vomiting.

From Regurgitate, perhaps, or similar to a "rising gorge."

See also: "Gurge Burger" which is the sort of drive-thru-chain-fast-food hamburger which you eat because you're so desperately hungry and short on time that you eat one even though you know that they always make you feel kinda sick. And it does.
Alternately, a meal of dubious quality that was so huge and greasy that you can't believe you ate the whole thing; and wish you hadn't.

 

[Mouse]

Guys, I do know that 'urge' actually means something else. I'm not quite that stupid!!

It must be a dialect thing then, for what I want. Ta. I'll just go with 'gagged.'

 

[tinkerdan]

Etymology 1
See gorge.
Verb
gurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)

(obsolete) To swallow up.

Etymology 2
Latin gurges.
Noun

gurge (plural gurges)
(obsolete) A whirlpool

urban::
gurge
To vomit in your mouth when you hear something particularly sickening.
Used interchangably with "I threw up a little in my mouth."

I have the urge to gurge when I hear someone purge.
We call it reflux.
But is sounds more like a gag reflux.

 

[Ursa major]

I've never read or heard "urge" used in that way.

As an aside, according to Wiki:

About a third of healthy adults do not have a gag reflex.

As someone who has trouble cleaning** and flossing my back teeth because it makes me want to gag, I'm amazed that so many people apparently don't have a gag reflex.


** - Using an electric toothbrush, that is; a "hand-powered" toothbrush is usually okay.

 

[Mouse]

It's definitely 'urge' here and not 'gurge.' That must be a US thing. And 'urge' must be Somerset/Devon specific then, if you've not heard it in Dorset, Ursa. Any Cornish folks heard it?

I have a pretty sensitive gag reflex, unfortunately! One of my (ex) friends had no gag reflex though.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Ah, Ursa, we should form a club. When I go to the dentist, I start in as soon as they stick that little mirror in my mouth, and it goes downhill from there.