Verb: boak
Usage: UK, dialect
Usage: UK, dialect
- Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"After drinking too much, the students boaked";
- vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], vom [informal], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up
Derived forms: boaks, boaking, boaked
Type of: egest, eliminate, excrete, pass
Encyclopedia: Boak, Keith