Bok vs Bowk - What's the difference?
bok | bowk |
(South Africa, slang) keen or willing.
The clucking sound of a chicken.
* 2000 , William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices
* 2004 , Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory
(Geordie) To belch, to burp.
* 1966 , William Mayne, Earthfasts , Peter Smith (1989), ISBN 9780844664309,
* 1997 , Brian P. Martin, Tales of the Old Countrywomen , David & Charles (1997), ISBN 9780715303658,
* 2008 , Sid Waddell, Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie , HarperCollins (2008), ISBN 9780007247820,
(UK) To vomit.
* 2004 , Chris Donald, Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz , HarperCollins (2004), ISBN 9780007190966,
* 2009 , Blythe Gifford, In the Master's Bed , Harlequin (2009), ISBN 9780373295623,
* 2010 , Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad , AuthorHouse (2010), ISBN 9781449015565,
* 2011 , Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor , Interactive Publications (2011), ISBN 9781921869549,
As a noun bok
is .As a verb bowk is
(geordie) to belch, to burp.bok
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bokAdjective
- "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok ."
Etymology 2
Imitative.Interjection
(en interjection)- And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.
- So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok , bok!'
Anagrams
* ----bowk
English
Alternative forms
*Verb
page 37:
- "That made me bowk'," he said; and he ' bowked again. He took another swig with caution, and gave the bottle to David, and they swigged at it in turn.
page 143:
- If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.
page 92:
- He claimed that meat or cheese made you 'bowk' (belch) and get stomach cramps — the last thing you need 'yakking' (using a pick) coal for eight tough hours in a two-foot 'cavil' (job area).
page 275:
- At that point another of my guests, a highly respected Newcastle art gallery owner by the name of Rashida, bowked up all over the floor behind me.
page 64:
- 'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'
page 107:
- Firstly, aged perhaps five or six after polishing off a banana and a slice of bread and butter in the back room at tea time, taking my plate out to the kitchen, I managed to make it only as far as the spin dryer in the hall before bowking richly over the lino.
unnumbered page:
- Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.