bolk
/bəʊk
/archaic or dialect
verb [no object]
1Belch.And the other belloweth with his muzzle straight out before him, bolking and rattling in the throat....
- Young devils bolking out a false philosophie.
- If it come of cold humours, the ache is less with grief of head, with swelling and paleness of face with sour bolking and unsavouriness of the mouth.
1.1Vomit.Morag goes a funny colour and starts bolking....
- What about those two farts from Colin Dow's uncle? Smelled like death. Half the stand was bolking.
- My husband gutted a fish nearly 2 weeks ago and just threw in the bin. I was bolking putting it out this morning.
noun
1A belch.He bigan benedicite with a bolk.
1.1An attack of vomiting.She has nothing left inside so its just a dry bolk....
- I did feel better after a boak which I refuse to clean up.
- The flashing lights from ShockWave sent her off for a boak behind the rides.
Origin
Middle English bolke; related to German bolken 'roar, bawl' and Dutch bulken 'bellow'. Compare with belch and boke.
- industrial starch
- industrial-strength
- industrial tribunal
- industrial unionism
- industrial unionist
- industrial unrest
- industrial waste
- Industrial Workers of the World
- industrious
- industriously
- industriousness
- industrous
- industry
- industrying
- industry leader
- industry-leading
- industry standard
- industry-wide
- in Dutch
- indwell
- indweller
- Indy
- IndyCar
- -ine
- in earnest