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Bowk vs Boak - What's the difference?

bowk | boak |

As verbs the difference between bowk and boak

is that bowk is (geordie) to belch, to burp while boak is (obsolete) to burp.

bowk

English

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Verb

  • (Geordie) To belch, to burp.
  • * 1966 , William Mayne, Earthfasts , Peter Smith (1989), ISBN 9780844664309, 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.
  • * 1997 , Brian P. Martin, Tales of the Old Countrywomen , David & Charles (1997), ISBN 9780715303658, page 143:
    • If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.
  • * 2008 , Sid Waddell, Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie , HarperCollins (2008), ISBN 9780007247820, 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).
  • (UK) To vomit.
  • * 2004 , Chris Donald, Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz , HarperCollins (2004), ISBN 9780007190966, 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.
  • * 2009 , Blythe Gifford, In the Master's Bed , Harlequin (2009), ISBN 9780373295623, page 64:
    • 'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'
  • * 2010 , Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad , AuthorHouse (2010), ISBN 9781449015565, 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.
  • * 2011 , Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor , Interactive Publications (2011), ISBN 9781921869549, unnumbered page:
    • Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.

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    boak

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To burp.
  • (Scotland) To retch or vomit.
  • * 1996, , Trainspotting [http://books.google.com/books?id=iSGR2pjiNNMC&pg=PA94&dq=trainspotting+boaked&sig=ACfU3U3ATToPuwanos9vFDS3fDC9nM8iSA]
    • — 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, , Movern Callar [http://books.google.com/books?id=ruWZweEYGCoC&q=%22to+boak%22&dq=%22to+boak%22&lr=&pgis=1]
    • 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, , Black and Blue [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xcp3XgEoKfUC&pg=PA190&dq=Black+and+Blue+boaking&sig=ACfU3U3-HUt2Oem4jS_Kw8gHawBTP3gnhg]
    • He’d skipped breakfast—didn’t like the idea of boaking it back up on the flight.
  • * 1999, , Behind the Scenes at the Museum [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=xVncfH11mvkC&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&sig=-ZokrlMpLfQayujl9JvIQto3fVk]
    • 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 !’).

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