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Bok vs Ook - What's the difference?

bok | ook |

As a noun bok

is .

As an interjection ook is

the cry of a monkey.

bok

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bok

Adjective

  • (South Africa, slang) keen or willing.
    • "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok ."

    Etymology 2

    Imitative.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The clucking sound of a chicken.
  • * 2000 , William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices
    • And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.
  • * 2004 , Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory
    • 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

    * ----

    ook

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The cry of a monkey.
  • * 1995 , Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
    • He tapped the Librarian on the shoulder. "Excuse me —" "Ook ?" "Those guys just called you a monkey," said Glod.
  • * 2004 , Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata
    • The irate ape cries, "Ook ook ! Ai ai ai!" He springs off the edge of the stone basin, clawing Cantare across the face and bursting through the door.
  • * 2014 , Victoria Wessex, Shipwrecked with the Billionaire Rock Star
    • Fingers pinched my eyelashes and lifted one eyelid. I looked straight into a big, leathery black face surrounded by brown fur. “Ook ?” asked the monkey.

    Synonyms

    * ooh-ah-ah