Boko
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The nose. Australia, West-Midlands, dated
"[…] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that."
- 2 A member of the Boko people.
- 1 A people of Benin and Nigeria.
- 2 Boko Haram.
- 3 A town in Niangoloko Department, Comoé Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso.
- 4 A district in the Pool region of southeastern Republic of the Congo.
- 5 The Latin script alphabet used for the Hausa language.
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- 6 A Mande language spoken by the Boko people.
Example
More examples"As Commander-in-Chief, I’ve seen how the ideology that leads Boko Haram to kidnap schoolgirls, and leads ISIL to enslave and rape women is the same ideology that leads to instability, and violence, and terrorism."
Etymology
Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins: * From beak (“nose”) * From French beaucoup (“very much”) * Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut * From boke (“point; thrust”) * From poke, as in poke one's nose into
From a word in the Boko language.
A shortening of Boko Haram.
Borrowed from Hausa boko.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.