bolk
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Etymology
From Middle English bolken, balken (“to vomit, overflow”), from Old English bealcian (“to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”), from Proto-Germanic *balkōną, *belkaną (“to belch”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch balken, bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bolken, bealcian, *balkōną
Usage
Inflected Forms
bolks (present, singular)
bolking (participle, present)
bolked (participle, past)
bolked (past)
boke (alternative)
bock (alternative)
boak (alternative, Scotland)
bouk (alternative, Scotland)
bowk (alternative, Scotland)