different between boak vs oak

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

Etymology

From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English ?c (also as Old English ??), from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“oak”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /o?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k/
• enPR: ?k
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

oak (countable and uncountable, plural oaks)

2. (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
   • Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks, and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

3. (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
4. A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

5. Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
6. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
   1. The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
   2. Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
   3. Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
   4. Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
   5. Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
7. The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase "to sport one's oak").
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye

     It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned.

   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

8. (wine) The flavor of oak.

Alternative forms

• (oak tree): woak, yack (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete)

Hypernyms

• (oak tree): tree

Meronyms

• (oak tree): acorn

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

oak (not comparable)

1. having a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
2. made of oak wood or timber

   an oak table, oak beam, etc

Synonyms

• (made of oak): oaken

Translations

Verb

oak (third-person singular simple present oaks, present participle oaking, simple past and past participle oaked)

1. (wine, transitive) To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• oak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• oak at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, Oka, koa, oka