Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boke

/boʊk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables: boke
IPA: /boʊk/

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To thrust or push out; butt; poke.

British usage

verb

To retch or vomit.

Intransitive verb

noun

Obsolete form of book.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Therefore to make complaynt / Of such mysadvysed / Parsons and dysgysed, / Thys boke we have devysed, […]"
"That is / like as the church doth read yͤ bokes of Iudith / Thobias / and the Machabees / but receaveth them not emonge the canonicall ſcriptures / even ſo let it read theſe two bokes (he meaneth yͤ boke of ſapience and eccleſiaſticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people / and not to confirme the doctrine of the church therbye."
"Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce."

Etymology

From Scots bock, attested from the 16th century.

Word Breakdown

Root: bock

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /boʊk/
British English: /bəʊk/

Usage

Inflected Forms

bokes (present, singular) boking (participle, present) boked (participle, past) boked (past) boak (alternative) boken (alternative) buck (alternative) bokes (plural)

Homonyms

bowk

Rhymes With

broke joke smoke spoke stroke woke folk oak coke sport one's oak stoke choke

Questions

How do you pronounce boke?: The recorded pronunciation is /boʊk/.
What does boke mean?: To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
Where does boke come from?: From Scots bock, attested from the 16th century.

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