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Boak

//bəʊk// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To burp. obsolete
  2. 2
    To retch or vomit. Scotland

    "— God sake... god sake... Mr Houston repeated as Mrs Houston boaked and I made a pathetic effort to mop some of the mess back into the sheets."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bolken (“to belch, vomit”), from Old English bealcian (“to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”), from Proto-Germanic *belkaną (“to belch”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch balken & bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch.

Etymology 2

Scottish surname, probably related to boak (“ridge”).

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