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

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

It's a vomity noise.

to boak is to vomit

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.

Oh like gag?? Got it..thanks

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

Damn you slow typing fingers!

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

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

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

"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

Ach! dit ya meeeeeen chaps wallah???

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!).

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

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

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

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

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

It's BOKE

As you were.

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

Thank you bunny, I was just about to say that

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

good point bunny

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

For very sick there's always chunder

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!