boke
Britishverb
noun
Etymology
Origin of boke
Middle English bolken ; related to belch , German bölken to roar
Example Sentences
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To use vernacular that our Scottish readers will no doubt be familiar with, it's enough to give you the boke.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013
Here is a good boke to lerne to speke french.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
I wyl not blot my boke with their names, because they be resident.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by John Awdeley
Which late hathe in England doo make this paper thynne That now in our Englysh this boke is prynted Inne.”
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
And fayn wolde I satysfy euery man; and so to doo, toke an olde boke and redde therein; and certaynly the englysshe was so rude and brood that I coude not wele vnderstande it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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