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; 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 Robert Burns
And wat’s war nur all, yah’ve hed to wauk wet and dry, thro thick and thin, i all sorts o’ weather to Keighley, wen you’ve wanted to go on the continent or Lundun.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
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
Wi’ Keighla foak we are behind, An’s hed to wauk agin wur mind; But soin th’ crookt-legg’d ens thay will find We’ll keep em wi’ a Railway.
From Th' History o' Haworth Railway fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
But soin yo can wauk slap to th’ train in a jiffey.
From Th' History o' Haworth Railway fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
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