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bowk
/boʊk/
verb 2
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1VERB + BOWK
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verb
1
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.
If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.
2
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.
'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'
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"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.
Wiktionary02
If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.
Wiktionary03
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).
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