wauk
1 Britishverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of wauk
C15: variant of walk
Example Sentences
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When I sleep I dream, When I wauk I'm eerie; superstitiously afraid Sleep I can get nane For thinking on my dearie.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
Sae aff gangs wullin' Girsie Broon, To wauk the druggist wast the toon.
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie
L before k is silent; as in balk, walk, talk; pronounced bauk, wauk, tauk.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
"Ye will take in my son, mother, Gi'e him to nurses nine;50 Three to wauk, and three to sleep, And three to gang between."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
“When I sleep I dream, When I wauk I’m eerie, Rest I canna get, For thinkin’ o’ my dearie.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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