Boak vs Oak - What's the difference?
boak | oak |
(obsolete) To burp.
(Scotland) To retch or vomit.
* 1996, , Trainspotting [http://books.google.com/books?id=iSGR2pjiNNMC&pg=PA94&dq=trainspotting+boaked&sig=ACfU3U3ATToPuwanos9vFDS3fDC9nM8iSA]
* 1997, , Movern Callar [http://books.google.com/books?id=ruWZweEYGCoC&q=%22to+boak%22&dq=%22to+boak%22&lr=&pgis=1]
* 1999, , Black and Blue [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xcp3XgEoKfUC&pg=PA190&dq=Black+and+Blue+boaking&sig=ACfU3U3-HUt2Oem4jS_Kw8gHawBTP3gnhg]
* 1999, , Behind the Scenes at the Museum [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=xVncfH11mvkC&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&sig=-ZokrlMpLfQayujl9JvIQto3fVk]
(senseid)(lb) A tree of the genus Quercus .
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
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*: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.
(lb) The wood of the oak.
A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
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(colour) of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
made of oak wood or timber
consisting of oak trees
As a verb boak
is to burp.As a noun oak is
(tree) A tree of the genus Quercus.As an adjective oak is
(colour) of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.boak
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Verb
(en verb)- — 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.
- I was going to boak : I made the window and opened it but most of the sickness hit the window-sill in a heap.
- He’d skipped breakfast—didn’t like the idea of boaking it back up on the flight.
- 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 !’).
Quotations
* (English Citations of "boak")oak
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Noun
Derived terms
* *Hypernyms
* (oak tree) treeMeronyms
* (oak tree) acornAdjective
(-)- an oak' table, ' oak beam, etc
- an oak' wood, ' oak forest, etc