different between boak vs bouk

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Verb

boak (third-person singular simple present boaks, present participle boaking, simple past and past participle boaked)

1. (obsolete) To burp.
2. (Scotland) To retch or vomit.
   • 1996, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting [1]

     — 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.

   • 1997, Alan Warner, Movern Callar [2]

     I was going to boak: I made the window and opened it but most of the sickness hit the window-sill in a heap.

   • 1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue [3]

     He’d skipped breakfast—didn’t like the idea of boaking it back up on the flight.

   • 1999, Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum [4]

     I think it was at this moment that Patricia lurched from the table, informing everyone that she was going to be sick and indeed was as good as her word, throwing up before reaching the door (‘Heinrich, fetch a clout — the lassie’s boaked!’).

   • 2020, Douglas Stewart, Shuggie Bain.

     She had to keep stopping to spit gobbits of rising boak into sinks and old tea mugs.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:boak.

Related terms

• bolk

Anagrams

• boka, koba

Scots

Alternative forms

• boke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bok/, /b?k/

Verb

boak (third-person singular present boaks, present participle boakin, past boakit, past participle boakit)

1. (Lallans and Ulster Scots) to vomit

English

Alternative forms

• bouke

Etymology

From Middle English bouk, from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål bukk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). See also bucket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/, /b??k/

Noun

bouk (plural bouks)

1. (Britain dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
2. (Britain dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
3. (Britain dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.

Anagrams

• Kubo, boku, buko

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• bou
• boub

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p?ouk]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?ewik/
• Bender phonemes: {b?wik}

Noun

bouk

1. a dragonfly

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• booke, book, buc, buk, boyke, bouke

Etymology

From Old English b?c, from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?k/

Noun

bouk (plural boukes or bouken)

1. belly, stomach
2. body (especially a corpse)
3. The main portion of a structure

Descendants

• English: bouk (obsolete)
• Scots: bouk, bowk, buik

References

• “b?uk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.