bolk

• boke, bock
• (Scottish) boak, bouk, bowk

From Middle English bolken, balken (“to vomit, overflow”), from Old English bealcan (“to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”), from Proto-Germanic *belkaną (“to belch”). Cognate with Dutch balken & bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch.

bolk (third-person singular simple present bolks, present participle bolking, simple past and past participle bolked)

1. (intransitive) To belch.
2. (intransitive) To vomit; retch.
3. (intransitive) To heave.
4. (intransitive) To gush out.
5. (transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.

• boak

• Kolb

From Middle Dutch bolc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /bɔlk/

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• Hyphenation: bolk
• Rhymes: -ɔlk

bolk m (plural bolken)

1. pouting, bib, Trisopterus luscus

   Synonyms: steenbolk, steenwijting

2. (obsolete) whiting or cod

   Synonyms: gadde, kabeljauw, wijting

• steenbolk

From Old Norse bǫlkr, balkr.

• IPA^(key): /bɔlk/

bolk m (definite singular bolken, indefinite plural bolkar, definite plural bolkane)

1. a part

• “bolk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.