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Boke

//bəʊk// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of book. alt-of, obsolete

    "Therefore to make complaynt / Of such mysadvysed / Parsons and dysgysed, / Thys boke we have devysed, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To thrust or push out; butt; poke. UK, ambitransitive, dialectal
  2. 2
    To retch or vomit. intransitive

Etymology

From Scots bock, attested from the 16th century.

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