bowk
verb/boʊk/
Etymology From Middle English bolken, bulken, alteration of earlier balken, from Old English bealcan (“to belch; utter”). Compare Dutch bulken (“to roar”), German bölken. More at bolk.
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Geordie To belch, to burp.
- "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.1966, William Mayne, Earthfasts, Peter Smith, published 1989, →ISBN, page 37:
- If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.1997, Brian P. Martin, Tales of the Old Countrywomen, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 143:
1 more example
- 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).2008, Sid Waddell, Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 92:
2
UK To vomit.
- 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.2004, Chris Donald, Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 275:
- 'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'2009, Blythe Gifford, In the Master's Bed, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 64:
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- 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.2010, Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 107:
- Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.2011, Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor, Interactive Publications, →ISBN: