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boak¹

  • /bəʊk/

Rhymes with -əʊk

Where it comes from

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 and bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch.

verb boaks · boaking · boaked

  1. obsolete To burp.
  2. Scotland 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.

Boak²

Where it comes from

Scottish surname, probably related to boak (“ridge”).

proper noun Boaks · Boyack

  1. A surname.

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@misc{boak_2026,
  title = {boak},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boak},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}