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bok.

male goat, billy

3 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɔk/
  1. male goat, billy

    masculine
  2. buck, horse or pony; strong contraption on legs, resembling a mount vaulting horse

    masculine
  3. buck, horse or pony; strong contraption on legs, resembling a mount sawbuck

    masculine
  4. buck, horse or pony; strong contraption on legs, resembling a mount a crane on legs

    masculine
  5. box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)

    masculine
  6. job case, type case

    masculine
  7. churl, grouch

    derogatory · masculine
  8. oaf, bumpkin

    derogatory · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

noun/bɔk/
  1. Form of address for a Javanese woman

    Suriname · dated · feminine · no-diminutive · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Caribbean Javanese mbok.

noun/bɔk/
  1. Amerindian person

    Suriname · masculine · obsolete
Where this word comes from

Proposed etymologies include Lokono bo-kia (“emphatic 'you'”), Lokono Lokono (“people, Arawak”), Portuguese botoque (“lip plate”), Portuguese bugre (“derogatory term for an Amerindian”). Compare English buck (“a black or Native American man”).

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