Word of the Day - 3/27/2008

Emesis

Emesis is the act of vomiting.

Proverbs says that just as a dog experiences emesis and laps up its contents, a fool returns to his folly. (Proverbs 26:11), The verse is quoted in II Peter 2:22.

Like a dog that returns to its vomit/Is a fool who repeats his folly. (Proverbs 26:11, NASB)

The more plesant language from this verse has become a cliché as “a fool returns to his folly” is a way of saying that a person keeps repeating the same mistake.

For the benefit of all involved, I did not illustrate this noun.