Etymology

bowk

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Today it means: To belch, to burp. Full definition →

Middle English bolken ← Old English bealcan
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  1. Old English · inherited frombealcan“to belch; utter”
  2. Middle English · inherited frombolken
  3. English todaybowk

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.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbolken all →

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