boak
verb/bəʊk/
Etymology
From Middle English bolken (“to belch, vomit”), from Old English bealcian (“to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”), from Proto-Germanic *belkaną (“to belch”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch balken & bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch.
- inherited from bealcian — “to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”
Definitions
To burp.
To retch or vomit.
- — 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.
- I was going to boak: I made the window and opened it but most of the sickness hit the window-sill in a heap.
- He’d skipped breakfast—didn’t like the idea of boaking it back up on the flight.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborbolk
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for boak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA