slang

Never in the USA.
Americans would use the slang word, "puke" instead.

I'm not sure that it is correct to classify "puke" as slang. Somewhat taboo, yes, but slang?

I wouldn't call it "taboo" (where would it not be allowed or acceptable?), but I consider it slang. Along with all the other words for vomiting: puke, barf, throw up, chunder...

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. As, first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Exactly.

Another reference for 'chunder', which sees no definitive origin for the word. See:

http://andc.anu.edu.au/pubs/ozwords/June2002/Aussiewords.html

In this article the question is raised, "If the word chunder was ‘not in popular currency in Australia’ in 1964 or in 1965 .... " Let me assure you that it was highly popular in Sydney in the early 1960's when I was a teenager. There was even a Sydney University Songbook song which included the lines, "If I could fine a spot to regurgitate the lot, I chunder in the old Pacific sea ..."

Given the common use of the word chunder in Australia,when I first came across references to wine under the name "Chateau Tanunda" in, I think, the book Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, I thought it was a joke, a made-up name generically used to refer to cheap, rough Australian wine. But not at all. Ch Tanunda does in fact exist, and moreover is a major and reputable producer, albeit I haven't seen it for sale in Europe. Now it does have a good excuse for using that name: it is located in the town of Tanunda, a town at the heart of Australia's major wine producing region of the Barossa Valley in South Australia, and it has an impressive chateau-like structure (as you can see http://www.chateautanunda.com/ looking a bit out of place with the palm trees). But, all the same, you would have thought they would have looked for a different name. But maybe, like many wineries in the region, it was set up by German people who just didn't spot the linguistic reference.

Chunder might have been popular in Sydney in the 60s, but like many Australians I suspect, I never heard it until after it had appeared in Barry Humphries stage banter and particularly his "Barry McKenzie " comic strip. Humphries of course, went to Melbourne Grammar, a prestigious private school, as a day boy, so the theory about "chunder" being private (known as "public") school slang is possibly true.

Here's Barry Crocker ( a Geelong boy) singing "Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea".

"Chateau Tanunda" wasn't particularly amusing in Australia in the 60s, since at that time we didn't actually use the word "chunder" much (except in Sydney it seems) and had not heard of Monty Python's "Australian Wine " sketch which relied on the British notion that Australian wine was rough wine, based I believe on the wine served at a chain in the UK called "Yates Wine Lodge".

The "chateau" part was certainly mocked for its campy pretension, but that was it.

it was set up by German people who just didn't spot the linguistic reference.

Possibly because there was no linguistic refrence to spot in 1890.

#28 is spot on. the fictional barry mackenzie character made lots of australian expressions popular in the UK via barry humphries' private eye cartoon strip in the early 70s. the two 'bazza' films were a natural progression of that. other bazza expressions that we brits took up eagerly were 'I'm so thirsty I could suck the crutch of a rag doll through a cane chair' and other delights such as 'hurling down the big white telephone' (chunder), `having a mouth like gandhi's flip-flop' after a night on the 'old amber nectar' and telling people not to 'come the raw prawn'. my 'the complete adventures of barry mackenzie' is one of my prized possessions.