Bowk vs Bonk - What's the difference?
bowk | bonk |
(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,
To strike or collide with something.
To have sexual intercourse.
(skateboarding) To hit something with the front wheels of the skateboard, whilst in the air, this pre-dates the snowboarding term,
(snowboarding) To hit something (especially a tree) with one's snowboard, especially while in the air.
To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
A bump on the head.
Any minor collision or random meeting.
An act of sexual intercourse.
A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
As verbs the difference between bowk and bonk
is that bowk is (geordie) to belch, to burp while bonk is to strike or collide with something.As a noun bonk is
a bump on the head.bowk
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*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.
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- Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.
