Holk vs Folk - What's the difference?
holk | folk |
To dig out; make hollow; hollow out.
To dig; dig into; pierce; penetrate; investigate; poke.
To dig up; excavate.
* 1908 , University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Studies , Volume 35,
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
* J. R. Green
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
*1907 , Race Prejudice , Jean Finot, p. 251:
*:We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk' and the Germanic ' folk have become Gaulish!
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
(music) Folk music.
(plural only) People in general.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (plural only) A particular group of people.
As nouns the difference between holk and folk
is that holk is a hollow cavity while folk is a grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.As a verb holk
is to dig out; make hollow; hollow out.As an adjective folk is
of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.holk
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)page 96,
- The Sessioune perceiving gryt perell through the burieing of people in the kirkyaird of thair perroche kirk and within the kirk itself by raising of grene graivis and holking under the kirk vall undermynding of the samyne ordanis fra this furth that na persone presume to mak graivis within the precinct thairof or yit to burie any persone within the boundis of the samine.
folk
English
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* voke, volk, volke (dialectal)Adjective
(-)- folk''' psychology; '''folk linguistics
Noun
(en-noun)- The organization of each folk , as such, sprang mainly from war.
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