howk
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of howk
C17: from earlier holk
Example Sentences
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"But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers," cried others; "and before Glossin sall keep the Place of Ellangowan, we'll howk him out o't wi' our nails!"
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
You can howk ony mortal thing out o’ the original Hebrew, the which all ministers hae at their finger ends.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Tam got my contracts this week, an' I have to gang back into a common place and howk coals.
From The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by James C. Welsh
"But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers," cried others; "and before Gossin shall keep the Place of Ellangowan, we'll howk him out o't wi' our nails!"
From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Henry Cabot Lodge
For similar parallel forms cp. gowk and goilk; nowt and nolt; howk and holk; lowp and loip; bowdyn and boildin, etc.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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