different between bock vs boak

English

Etymology

From German Bockbier.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophones: balk, bok

Noun

bock (countable and uncountable, plural bocks)

1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

French

Noun

bock m (plural bocks)

1. a beer glass having the capacity of approximately a quarter of a litre
2. the content of such a beer glass

Related terms

• sous-bock

Further reading

• “bock” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish boc, poc, pocc (“he-goat”) (compare Irish boc).

Noun

bock m (genitive singular bock, plural buick)

1. buck, male (of animals)
2. gelding

Derived terms

• bock goayr (“billygoat”)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “poc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bukker, bokker, from Old Norse bokkr, bukkr, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz‚ from Proto-Indo-European *b?u?no-, *b?ukkos, *b?ugkó-.

Noun

bock c

1. a buck; the male of goat and deer
2. the tick mark (?), indicating incorrectness in Swedish schoolbooks
3. a sawhorse
4. a mount for a (roller) bearing
5. a bend or fold of sheet metal
6. a tool to bend or fold sheet metal
7. leapfrog is called hoppa bock
8. a gymnastics tool for leapfrogging

Declension

Related terms

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