to ask what the work 'boak' means?

[soozybee1]

I've seen it quite a lot on here and once on FB. Is it pronounced like boat but with a k? and while I'm asking what does it mean when someone just types the word 'this' in a thread? Thanks

[TheCunningStunt]

It means something makes you feel a bit sick as far as I know

[MardyBratannia]

It's a vomity noise.

[ratspeaker]

to boak is to vomit

[NicholasTeakozy]

To get the meaning you merely have to say it out loud. It's very onomatopoeic, like quack or squelch.

:o It means to vomit.

[soozybee1]

Oh like gag?? Got it..thanks

[Shutupanddrive]

The noise you would make if you were about to throw up!
No idea about the 'this' part, I've never seen that

[NicholasTeakozy]

Damn you slow typing fingers!

[DontWannaBeAMug]

Being sick in someone's mouth and making them swallow it by pegging their nose.

[HecateTrivia]

yup. It's a heave/retch/upchuck.

Yodelling down the big white phone

placing a call to huey

a technicolour yawn

jettisoning the chunky cargo

I could go on, but I think the point is made

[Geordieminx]

It's a Scottish (mibees Glasgae?) thing?

[ratspeaker]

"Gies me the boak" is Scots for that really makes me feel rather nauseous

"He's awa phonin Hughy" means he is vomiting in the toilet bowl, this is usually after a copious amount of alcohol has been consumed

[DontWannaBeAMug]

Ach! dit ya meeeeeen chaps wallah???

[maybenow]

it means 'retch' i'd say (in scottish) - it's sort of vomit but doesn't apply to copious sickly vomit (that would be 'spew' in scotland), more like a dry retch or just a little bit of vom in your mouth (yuck!).

[ginmakesitallok]

It's both Scottish and Irish - must be a celtic thing. It can be used as a verb or a noun

[SimplySoo]

Yes YABU because it's on the mumsnet acronyms page! So you could've found out easily: http://www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

[lattelov3r]

means feeling sick to actually be sick would be spew or vom

[Piffpaffpoff]

It's a Baileys and coke (according to 'Gary Tank Commander'). That really would gie me the boak!!

[BunnyLebowski]

Can I just say, as an Irish MNer it is NOT boak.

It's BOKE

As you were.

[starmaker7]

'this' usually means that the person agrees with what the previous poster has put

[Smellslikecatspee]

Thank you bunny, I was just about to say that

[BunnyLebowski]

Solidarity......I like it. So it is

[lattelov3r]

good point bunny

[wigglesrock]

Third what BunnyLebowski said , boke used all the time in our house in NI.

[ratspeaker]

For very sick there's always chunder

[iceandsliceplease]

We used it a lot growing up in our house (Norfolk) - our grandmother was Glaswegian . To me it means not actually being sick, but having a wave of vomit rise up and lap the back of your teeth that you then swallow, or a dry retch in the middle of copious puking.

Lovely either way!