Meanings
boko1
plural bokos
- AustraliaWest MidlandsdatedThe nose.
He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.
2012, Mary Dobbs Wood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Inventing My Childhood, page 452 more examples
[…] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.
1943, W[illiam] E[arl] Johns, Biggles Fails to Return, page 115He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of "Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!"
1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, volume 86, number 1, page 41Synonyms: nose
Boko2
Boko3
Boko4
- A town in Niangoloko Department, Comoé Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso.
Boko5
- A district in the Pool region of southeastern Republic of the Congo.
Boko6
- The Latin script alphabet used for the Hausa language.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe nose.
proper nounA Mande language spoken by the Boko people.
nounA member of the Boko people.
Origin
boko · noun
- Frenchbeaucoup“very much”
- Englishboko
Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins: * From beak (“nose”) * From French beaucoup (“very much”) * Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut * From boke (“point; thrust”) * From poke, as in poke one's nose into
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Boko · proper noun
- Hausaboko
- EnglishBoko
Borrowed from Hausa boko.
More words from Hausa
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French boko, boo
- bokoMande language of Benin and Nigeria
- booMande language of Benin and Nigeria
- Bokotown in Burkina Faso
- Bokodistrict in Republic of the Congo
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with boko
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Cite this entry
boko. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boko
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