Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to boak
Participle: boaked
Gerund: boaking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | boak |
| you | boak |
| he;she;it | boaks |
| we | boak |
| you | boak |
| they | boak |
Perfect
| I | have boaked |
| you | have boaked |
| he;she;it | has boaked |
| we | have boaked |
| you | have boaked |
| they | have boaked |
Past
| I | boaked |
| you | boaked |
| he;she;it | boaked |
| we | boaked |
| you | boaked |
| they | boaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had boaked |
| you | had boaked |
| he;she;it | had boaked |
| we | had boaked |
| you | had boaked |
| they | had boaked |
Future
| I | will boak |
| you | will boak |
| he;she;it | will boak |
| we | will boak |
| you | will boak |
| they | will boak |
Future Perfect
| I | will have boaked |
| you | will have boaked |
| he;she;it | will have boaked |
| we | will have boaked |
| you | will have boaked |
| they | will have boaked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | boak |
| you | boak |
| he;she;it | boak |
| we | boak |
| you | boak |
| they | boak |
Perfect
| I | have boaked |
| you | have boaked |
| he;she;it | have boaked |
| we | have boaked |
| you | have boaked |
| they | have boaked |
Imperfect
| I | boaked |
| you | boaked |
| he;she;it | boaked |
| we | boaked |
| you | boaked |
| they | boaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had boaked |
| you | had boaked |
| he;she;it | had boaked |
| we | had boaked |
| you | had boaked |
| they | had boaked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would boak |
| you | would boak |
| he;she;it | would boak |
| we | would boak |
| you | would boak |
| they | would boak |
Perfect
| I | would have boaked |
| you | would have boaked |
| he;she;it | would have boaked |
| we | would have boaked |
| you | would have boaked |
| they | would have boaked |
Imperative
| you | boak |
| we | Let's boak |
| you | boak |
Verbs conjugated like 'boak'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'boak'
beak,
boat,
bolk,
bonk,
book,
bork,
coak,
oak,
soak,
baa,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to regurgitate the contents of a stomach
- bait, be sick, blow chunks, boke, boot, cast up one's accounts, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, puke, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, sick up, spew, throw up, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit, yak
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English bolken (“to belch, vomit”), from Old English bealcian (“to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”), from Proto-Germanic *belkaną (“to belch”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch balken and bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch. See: Old English '
bealcian', Dutch '
balken', German, old spelling '
bölken'.
Sample Sentences
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— God sake... god sake... Mr Houston repeated as Mrs Houston boaked and I made a pathetic effort to mop some of the mess back into the sheets. [1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 94:]
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I was going to boak: I made the window and opened it but most of the sickness hit the window-sill in a heap. [1997, Alan Warner, Movern Callar]
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He’d skipped breakfast—didn’t like the idea of boaking it back up on the flight. [1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue]
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I think it was at this moment that Patricia lurched from the table, informing everyone that she was going to be sick and indeed was as good as her word, throwing up before reaching the door (‘Heinrich, fetch a clout — the lassie’s boaked!’). [1999, Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum]
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She had to keep stopping to spit gobbits of rising boak into sinks and old tea mugs. [2020, Douglas Stewart, Shuggie Bain]