boke

boak or bock

Scot

verb

to retch or vomit

noun

a retch; vomiting fit

Word Origin for boke

Middle English bolken; related to belch, German bölken to roar

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Examples from the Web for boke

This statement may speedily be verified by a reference to the reprinted Kendal “Boke of Recorde.”
Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland|Daniel Scott
In this way we find many good things, and banish the rest; we attempt to "boke something new," and revive others.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction|Various
In the Boke of Curtesye it is blamed as a mark of bad breeding to play with the cats and dogs while seated at table.
Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present|John Timbs
And in the begynning is set a briefe summe of all the principall matters spoken of in the boke.
Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge|W. W. Greg

He assigned to her little else in the Boke except part of the treatise on hawking and the section on hunting.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 6|Various