boak

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To burp. obsolete
  2. To retch or vomit. Scotland
    — — 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.

词形变化

boaks present,singular,third-person boaking participle,present boaked participle,past boaked past

词汇关系

衍生词
the dry boak
相关词
bolk

词源

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