bowk
/boʊk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""That made me bowk," he said; and he bowked again. He took another swig with caution, and gave the bottle to David, and they swigged at it in turn."
- "If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up."
- "He claimed that meat or cheese made you 'bowk' (belch) and get stomach cramps — the last thing you need 'yakking' (using a pick) coal for eight tough hours in a two-foot 'cavil' (job area)."
- "At that point another of my guests, a highly respected Newcastle art gallery owner by the name of Rashida, bowked up all over the floor behind me."
- "'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'"
- "Firstly, aged perhaps five or six after polishing off a banana and a slice of bread and butter in the back room at tea time, taking my plate out to the kitchen, I managed to make it only as far as the spin dryer in the hall before bowking richly over the lino."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bolken, bealcan
Usage
- British usage