boke
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Scots bock (variant forms: bowk, boak, bolk etc), attested from the 16th century.
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Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊk/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /boʊk/
- Rhymes: -əʊk
Verb edit
boke (third-person singular simple present bokes, present participle boking, simple past and past participle boked)
- (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
- (intransitive) To retch or vomit.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
boke (plural bokes)
- 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.
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boke n (plural bokes)
- Diminutive of bo
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boke
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
boke
- Alternative form of bok
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
boke
- Alternative form of bukke
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
boke
- to vomit
Ternate edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boke
- a scar
References edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Walloon edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boke f (plural bokes)
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See also edit
Wolio edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀkəs.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
boke
- to tie
References edit
- Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.