blauke

Yola

Alternative forms

• blauyke, blaake

Etymology

From Middle English blaken (“to frighten”), from Old English blācian (“to become pale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɔːk/, /blaːk/
• Homophone: blaak

Verb

blauke (present participle blaukeen)

1. to blare, blow, bleat, bawl

Noun

blauke

1. A cry of a kid or calf.

Related terms

• blay

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 26