bowk

present singular third person bowks · participle present bowking · participle present bowkin · participle past bowked · past bowked · alternative bolk

1. GeordieTo belch, to burp.

   If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.

   1997, Brian P. Martin, Tales of the Old Countrywomen, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 143

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   "That made me bowk," he said; and he bowked again. He took another swig with caution, and gave the bottle to David, and they swigged at it in turn.

   1966, William Mayne, Earthfasts, Peter Smith, published 1989, →ISBN, page 37

   He claimed that meat or cheese made you 'bowk' (belch) and get stomach cramps — the last thing you need 'yakking' (using a pick) coal for eight tough hours in a two-foot 'cavil' (job area).

   2008, Sid Waddell, Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 92

2. UKTo vomit.

   Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.

   2011, Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor, Interactive Publications, →ISBN

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   At that point another of my guests, a highly respected Newcastle art gallery owner by the name of Rashida, bowked up all over the floor behind me.

   2004, Chris Donald, Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 275

   'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'

   2009, Blythe Gifford, In the Master's Bed, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 64

   Firstly, aged perhaps five or six after polishing off a banana and a slice of bread and butter in the back room at tea time, taking my plate out to the kitchen, I managed to make it only as far as the spin dryer in the hall before bowking richly over the lino.

   2010, Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 107