bok

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US/bɑk/General South African, UK/bɒk/

adjective

Keen or willing.

“"Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

bok1

adjective
  1. South AfricaslangKeen or willing.

    "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."

bok2

interjection
  1. The clucking sound of a chicken.

    And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.

    2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices
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    So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

    2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory
verbbok (third-person singular simple present boks, present participle bokking, simple past and past participle bokked)

present singular third person boks · participle present bokking · participle past bokked · past bokked

  1. To make the clucking sound of a chicken.

Bok3

proper nounBok (plural Boks)

plural Boks

  1. A surname from German, Dutch, or Swedish.
nounBok (plural Boks)

plural Boks

  1. abbreviationclippingball gamesClipping of Springbok, a player for the South African national rugby team.

    Between minutes 30 and 33 England laid siege to the Bok tryline but could not get through.

    2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times
    1 more example

    Yes, we lifted the World Cup in 2003 (I can still effortlessly visualise Jonny's drop kick), but the Boks have won four, the Kiwis three and the Aussies two. Our women, thank God, are so much better.

    2026 March 14, Robert Taylor, “It's Finally Time to Admit that the English Are Rubbish at Sport”, in The Telegraph

Origin

bok · adjective

  1. Afrikaansbok
  2. Englishbok

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

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bok · interjection, verb

Imitative

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Bok · proper noun, noun

  1. Swedishbok“beech”
  2. Dutchbok“buck, he-goat”
  3. GermanBock
  4. EnglishBok

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

bok. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bok

MLA

“bok.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bok. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bok,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bok.

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