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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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boking
[‘bok’ to rhyme with English
oak
]
verb
retching, vomiting
19-
.
etymology:
Scots; Older Scots
bok, bock noun
and
verb
‘to belch’; from the fifteenth century; attested by
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