wauk
1 Britishverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of wauk
C15: variant of walk
Example Sentences
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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 Triemens, Joseph
When I sleep I dream, When I wauk I’m eerie; Sleep I can get nane For thinking on my dearie.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
My sel micht wauk up at the saft fitfa' O' my bonnie departin dame; But gien she lo'ed me ever sae sma' I micht bide it—the weary same!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
Like the smith's dog, sleep at the sound o' the hammer, and wauk at the crunching o' teeth.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
O for a wauk at even, somewhere abowt 6 or 7, When the Son be gwain to bed, with his fase all fyree red.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph
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