Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- 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 *belkanan (“to belch”). Cognate with Dutch balken & bulken ("to bellow"), German bölken ("to roar"). See also belch. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On Feb. 2 we have Candlemas and Imbolc (pronounced Im-bolk).”
“Tliat the doors bolk of the fenate and Aflembly ihall at all times be kept open to all per* fons, except when the welfare of the State fliall require their de - bates to be kept fecret.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bolk’.
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bolk.
ruzuzu *adds to list* Nov 29, 2010
yarb The Century Dictionary is all over this one like a bad rash. Nov 29, 2010
hernesheir Or might it rhyme with folk? Nov 29, 2010
yarb Does this rhyme with yolk? Nov 29, 2010
hernesheir Doesn't have the delightful ring to it that hork does. Nov 29, 2010