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Definition of 'bowk'

English

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Verb

  • (Geordie) To belch, to burp.
  • * 1966 , William Mayne, Earthfasts , Peter Smith (1989), ISBN 9780844664309, page 37:
    • "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.
  • * 1997 , Brian P. Martin, Tales of the Old Countrywomen , David & Charles (1997), ISBN 9780715303658, page 143:
    • If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.
  • * 2008 , Sid Waddell, Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie , HarperCollins (2008), ISBN 9780007247820, page 92:
    • 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).
  • (UK) To vomit.
  • * 2004 , Chris Donald, Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz , HarperCollins (2004), ISBN 9780007190966, page 275:
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Blythe Gifford, In the Master's Bed , Harlequin (2009), ISBN 9780373295623, page 64:
    • 'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'
  • * 2010 , Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad , AuthorHouse (2010), ISBN 9781449015565, page 107:
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor , Interactive Publications (2011), ISBN 9781921869549, unnumbered page:
    • Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.

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