boak
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bəʊk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊk
Verb
[edit]boak (third-person singular simple present boaks, present participle boaking, simple past and past participle boaked)
- (obsolete) To burp.
- (Scotland) To retch or vomit.
- 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 94:
- — 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.
- 1997, Alan Warner, Movern Callar:
- I was going to boak: I made the window and opened it but most of the sickness hit the window-sill in a heap.
- 1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue:
- He’d skipped breakfast—didn’t like the idea of boaking it back up on the flight.
- 1999, Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum:
- I think it was at this moment that Patricia lurched from the table, informing everyone that she was going to be sick and indeed was as good as her word, throwing up before reaching the door (‘Heinrich, fetch a clout — the lassie’s boaked!’).
- 2020, Douglas Stewart, Shuggie Bain:
- She had to keep stopping to spit gobbits of rising boak into sinks and old tea mugs.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:boak.
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[edit]boak (third-person singular simple present boaks, present participle boakin, simple past boakit, past participle boakit)
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