Noun: Bok
Sample Sentences
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Between minutes 30 and 33 England laid siege to the Bok tryline but could not get through. [2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times:]
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Yes, we lifted the World Cup in 2003 (I can still effortlessly visualise Jonny's drop kick), but the Boks have won four, the Kiwis three and the Aussies two. Our women, thank God, are so much better. [2026 March 14, Robert Taylor, “It's Finally Time to Admit that the English Are Rubbish at Sport”, in The Telegraph:]
Nouns inflected like Bok
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Bock and Dutch bok (“buck, he-goat”) and from Swedish bok (“beech”). See: German Nouns '
Bock', Dutch Nouns '
bok', Swedish Nouns '
bok'.