bowk
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English bolken, bulken, alteration of earlier balken, from Old English bealcan (“to belch; utter”). Compare Dutch bulken (“to roar”), German bölken. More at bolk.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
bowk (third-person singular simple present bowks, present participle bowking or bowkin, simple past and past participle bowked)
- (Geordie) To belch, to burp.
- (UK) To vomit.
- 2010, Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad[5], AuthorHouse, →ISBN, 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.
References[edit]
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [7]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[8]
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Scots bolk (“to belch”). Cognate with Geordie bowk and General Scots boak (but does not have quite the same meaning).
Noun[edit]
bowk (uncountable)
- (South Scots) vomit; sick
Verb[edit]
bowk (third-person singular simple present bowks, present participle bowkin, simple past bowkt, past participle bowkt)
- (South Scots) to vomit; to throw up.
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