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to ask what the work 'boak' means?

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soozybee1 · 01/06/2012 17:14

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

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iceandsliceplease · 01/06/2012 22:19

Oh yes, chunder - the kind of puking where you may not make it quite to the toilet in time and when you do, your mouth just isn't big/powerful enough to control/direct what's erupting out of your mouth.

PoppadumPreach · 01/06/2012 22:33

a bit of back ground......

Boke means to vomit. Originally spelt bock and now often spelt boak, it is pronounced, as you would expect, to rhyme with soak. In origin, it is onomatopoeic.

Boke, which originally meant belch and can mean retch, is a particularly good example of this. It suggests its meaning far more vividly than its English equivalents vomit or be sick.

Boke can also be a noun. Thus, someone has to clean the boke off the bathroom floor after a post-binge incident. People can be left with tell-tale dried-in boke on their clothes, as a result of that sudden dash to the toilet after that one too many.

Boke can also be used figuratively. If you want to describe something that you utterly disapprove of or find detestable, then ?it gies (gives) me the boke? ? as in: ?Her airs and graces fair gie me the boke (or boak)? ? ticks the right box.

If you want to emphasize your disapproval or dislike even further you can always turn to it gies me the dry boke (or boak). The dry boke (or boak) literally is that terrible stage further than vomiting when you have got rid of everything that was in your stomach and you are retching helplessly without result.

Smellslikecatspee · 02/06/2012 12:35

Hi Bunny Grin

Mrsjay · 02/06/2012 13:02

It means Heave , its used in scotland I was suprised to see it on mumsnet and pleased its a fab word Grin

takingiteasy · 02/06/2012 18:27

He was pure stinking man it right gave me the boke.

Vodka and red bull gives me the boke.

They are my fave ways to use boke. Like it's its own entity worthy of respect. The Boke.

EvenBetter · 02/06/2012 19:50

I say it all the time! (N Ireland)
'look what that customer left on their saucer.'
'boke.'

'I'm gonna boke all over you if you don't stop that.'

ScarlettInSpace · 02/06/2012 19:53

Haha I always thought it was an acronym for Barf All Over Keyboard but I've just realised the O and the A are the wrong way round Blush

Mrsjay · 02/06/2012 20:03

the worst thing i have heard was my sister saying whilst hungover , I took the dry boak Grin

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