different between bork vs bouk

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

A reference to the unsuccessful 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork (1927–2012); first appeared in print that same year.

Verb

bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)

1. (transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy. [from 1987]

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.