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語源 1

From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).

形容詞

bok

1. (South Africa, slang) Keen or willing.

   "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."

語源 2

Imitative

間投詞

bok

1. The clucking sound of a chicken.

   Alternative form: bawk

   • 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices:

     And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.

   • 2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:

     So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

動詞

bok (third-person singular simple present boks, present participle bokking, simple past and past participle bokked)

1. To make the clucking sound of a chicken.

参考

アナグラム

• KBO, OKB, kob

語源

From 古期英語 bōc, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

発音

• IPA: /boːk/

名詞

bok (plural bokes)

1. A document, especially if extensive and composed of bound pages:
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 10:10, folio 120, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ I took þe book of þe aũgels hond ⁊ deuourıde ıt .· ⁊ ıt was ĩ my mouþ as ſwete as hony / ⁊ whãne I hadde deuorıde ıt .· my wombe was bıttır […]

     And I took the document from the angel's hand and consumed it; it seemed sweet like honey in my mouth, but when I'd eaten it, my stomach felt bitter.

   1. A notebook; a document kept empty for spontaneous use.
   2. A legal or governmental record or register.
   3. An account book or ledger; a financial record.
2. A book; an extended written work:
   • c. 1180, Orͬm, “[Preface]”, in Orͬmulum (Bodleian MS. Junius 1), Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire, folio 9, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

     Þiſſ boc ıſſ nẽ̃nedd. orͬmulũ⹎ forͬþı ꝥ orͬm ıtt ƿrohhte⹎ ⁊ ıtt ıſſ ƿrohͪt off quaþþrıꟑan. off ꟑoddſpellbokeſſ foƿƿre.

     This book is called the "Ormulum" since Orm made it. It's made out of a quadriga; out of the four Gospels […]

   1. A volume or fascicle of a larger work.
   2. A particular book (especially the Bible)
      • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 2, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:

        I ꝑrceyued of þe power. þat Peter hadde to kepe / To bynden and vnbynden. as þe book telleþ

        I comprehended the power that Peter had to maintain: / to lock and unlock, as the [Good] Book says […]

3. (figuratively) Knowledge, ethics or a source of them.

関連する語

• bochous
• bocstaff
• landbok

派生した語

• English: book (see there for further descendants)

  Geordie: buik, beuk, byuk

• Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
• Yola: buke

参照

• “bọ̄k, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.