Boke

//bəʊk// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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

Synonyms

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bow down before the porcelain godcastchuckdrive the porcelain busheavehurl

Example

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"Sir Robert Saville writing to Sir Robert Cotton, appointing an interview with the founder of the Bodleian Library, cautions Sir Robert, that “If he held any book so dear as that he would be loath to lose it, he should not let Sir Thomas out of his sight, but set ‘the boke’ aside beforehand.”"

Etymology

From Scots bock, attested from the 16th century.

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