boke

See also: Boke, bókè, bokë, and Böke

English

Etymology 1

From Scots bock, attested from the 16th century.

Alternative forms

• boak, boken, buck

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəʊk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /boʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk

Verb

boke (third-person singular simple present bokes, present participle boking, simple past and past participle boked)

1. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
2. (intransitive) To retch or vomit.

Etymology 2

Noun

boke (plural bokes)

1. Obsolete form of book.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:

     Therefore to make complaynt / Of such mysadvysed / Parsons and dysgysed, / Thys boke we have devysed, […]

   • [1531], Iohan Frith, A Disputaciõ of Purgatorye Made by Iohan Frith Which Is Deuided in to Thre Bokes:

     That is / like as the church doth read yͤ bokes of Iudith / Thobias / and the Machabees / but receaveth them not emonge the canonicall ſcriptures / even ſo let it read theſe two bokes (he meaneth yͤ boke of ſapience and eccleſiaſticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people / and not to confirme the doctrine of the church therbye.

   • 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria, translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, London: […] Guilhelmi Powell:

     Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce.

Anagrams

• Kobe, Kōbe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːkə/

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• Rhymes: -oːkə
• Hyphenation: bo‧ke

Noun

boke n (plural bokes)

1. Diminutive of bo

Anagrams

• boek

Japanese

Romanization

boke

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼけ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ボケ

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

boke

1. Alternative form of bok

Etymology 2

Noun

boke

1. Alternative form of bukke

Scots

Alternative forms

• boak

Verb

boke

1. to vomit

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.ke]

Noun

boke

1. a scar

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

Noun

boke f (plural bokes)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Synonyms

• boutche

See also

• gueuye

Wolio

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀkəs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɓoke/

Verb

boke

1. to tie

References

• Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.