woak
English edit
Etymology edit
Like one, the word oak acquired an intrusive initial /w/ in some dialects beginning already in the 1400s with Middle English wocke (“oak”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
woak (plural woaks)
- (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak.
- 1890, Sydney Savory Buckman, John Darke's Sojourn, section XIV:
- When I'd a-hung un up in th' woak tree […]
- 1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, section 78:
- As we wer catchèn vrom our laps / Below a woak our bits an' draps […]
References edit
- ^ Christopher Upward, George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2011), section "O"
Anagrams edit
Saterland Frisian edit
Etymology edit
Compare Low German waak; German wach.
Adjective edit
woak