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bowk

Pronunciation: /boʊk/

The English word “bowk” has 2 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To belch, to burp.
  2. To vomit.

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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