Meaning of bowk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To belch, to burp.
   Geordie
2. To vomit.
   UK

Examples

“"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.”

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

“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).”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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