Alternative forms

• boak, boken, buck

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəʊk/Category:English 1-syllable words#BOKECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BOKE

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#BOKE
• (General American) IPA^(key): /boʊk/Category:English 1-syllable words#BOKECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BOKE
• Rhymes: -əʊkCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊk#BOKECategory:Rhymes:English/əʊk/1 syllable#BOKE

Verb

boke (third-person singular simple present bokes, present participle boking, simple past and past participle boked)Category:English lemmas#BOKECategory:English verbs#BOKECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOKECategory:Pages with entries#BOKECategory:Pages with 9 entries#BOKE

1. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BOKECategory:English intransitive verbs#BOKE, UKCategory:British English#BOKE dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#BOKE) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BOKE) To retch or vomit.

Noun

boke (plural bokes)Category:English lemmas#BOKECategory:English nouns#BOKECategory:English countable nouns#BOKECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOKECategory:Pages with entries#BOKECategory:Pages with 9 entries#BOKE

1. Obsolete form of bookCategory:English obsolete forms#BOKE.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:

     Therefore to make complaynt / Of such mysadvysed / Parsons and dysgysed, / Thys boke we have devysed, […]

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   • [1531], Iohan Frith, A Disputaciõ of Purgatorye Made by Iohan Frith Which Is Deuided in to Thre Bokes:

     That is / like as the church doth read yͤ bokes of Iudith / Thobias / and the Machabees / but receaveth them not emonge the canonicall ſcriptures / even ſo let it read theſe two bokes (he meaneth yͤ boke of ſapience and eccleſiaſticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people / and not to confirme the doctrine of the church therbye.

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   • 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria, translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, London: […] Guilhelmi Powell:

     Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce.

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Noun

bokeCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BOKECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BOKECategory:Pages with entries#BOKECategory:Pages with 9 entries#BOKE

1. alternative form of bok

Noun

bokeCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BOKECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BOKECategory:Pages with entries#BOKECategory:Pages with 9 entries#BOKE

1. alternative form of bukke

Synonyms

• boutche

See also

• gueuye