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boko

noun
/ˈbəʊ.kəʊ/UK/ˈboʊ.koʊ/US

Etymology

Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins: * From beak (“nose”) * From French beaucoup (“very much”) * Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut * From boke (“point; thrust”) * From poke, as in poke one's nose into

  1. derived from beaucoup — “very much”

Definitions

  1. The nose.

    • […] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.
    • He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of "Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!"
    • He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.

  2. A people of Benin and Nigeria.

  3. A Mande language spoken by the Boko people.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A member of the Boko people.

    2. Boko Haram.

    3. A town in Niangoloko Department, Comoé Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso.

    4. A district in the Pool region of southeastern Republic of the Congo.

    5. The Latin script alphabet used for the Hausa language.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA