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Bok

//bɑk// adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Keen or willing. South-Africa, slang

    ""Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok.""

Intj
  1. 1
    The clucking sound of a chicken.

    "And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of Springbok. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

    "Between minutes 30 and 33 England laid siege to the Bok tryline but could not get through."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make the clucking sound of a chicken.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).

Etymology 2

Imitative

Etymology 3

Imitative

Etymology 4

* As a Dutch surname, from bok (“goat, buck”) * As a Swedish surname, from bok (“beech”) * As a Jewish/German surname, from Bock (“buck, goat”), related to the Dutch word.

Etymology 5

* As a Dutch surname, from bok (“goat, buck”) * As a Swedish surname, from bok (“beech”) * As a Jewish/German surname, from Bock (“buck, goat”), related to the Dutch word.

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