Etymology

bok

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Today it means: Keen or willing. Full definition →

Afrikaans bok
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bok · adjective1

  1. Afrikaans · borrowed frombok
  2. English todaybok

From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).

bok · interjection, verb2

Imitative

Bok · proper noun, noun3

  1. Swedish · borrowed frombok“beech”
  2. Dutch · borrowed frombok“buck, he-goat”
  3. German · derived fromBock
  4. English todayBok

From German Bock and Dutch bok (“buck, he-goat”) and from Swedish bok (“beech”).

Words from the same roots

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buckwagon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.