bowk
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English bolken, bulken, alteration of earlier balken, from Old English bealcan (“to belch; utter”). Compare Dutch bulken (“to roar”), German bölken. More at bolk.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /boʊk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -oʊk
Verb
editbowk (third-person singular simple present bowks, present participle bowking or bowkin, simple past and past participle bowked)
- (Geordie) To belch, to burp.
- (UK) To vomit.
- 2010, Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad[5], AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 107:
- Firstly, aged perhaps five or six after polishing off a banana and a slice of bread and butter in the back room at tea time, taking my plate out to the kitchen, I managed to make it only as far as the spin dryer in the hall before bowking richly over the lino.
References
editScots
editEtymology
editFrom Old Scots bolk (“to belch”). Cognate with Geordie bowk and General Scots boak (but does not have quite the same meaning).
Noun
editbowk (uncountable)
Verb
editbowk (third-person singular simple present bowks, present participle bowkin, simple past bowkt, past participle bowkt)
- (Southern Scots) to vomit; to throw up.
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