boko
English
Etymology
Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins:
- From beak (“nose”)[1][2]
- From French beaucoup (“very much”)[1][2]
- Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut[1]
- From boke (“point; thrust”)[2]
- From poke, as in poke one's nose into[2]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Noun
boko (plural bokos)
- (dated, West Midlands, originally boxing) the nose.
- 1943, W[illiam] E[arl] Johns, Biggles Fails to Return, page 115:
- […] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.
- 1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, volume 86, number 1, page 41:
- He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of "Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!"
- 2012, Mary Dobbs Wood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Inventing My Childhood, page 45:
- He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:nose
References
Anagrams
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
boko (accusative singular bokon, plural bokoj, accusative plural bokojn)
References
French
Etymology
From a word in the Boko language.
Noun
boko m (uncountable)
Gothic
Romanization
bōkō
- Romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐍉
Hausa
Etymology
Often stated to be borrowed from English book, but Paul Newman disputes this, stating "boko is an indigenous Hausa word originally connoting sham, fraud, deceit, or lack of authenticity. When the British colonial government imposed secular schools in northern Nigeria at the beginning of the 20th century, boko was applied in a pejorative sense to this new system. By semantic extension, boko came to acquire its current meaning of Hausa written in Roman script and Western education in general.".[1]
Noun
bōkṑ m (possessed form bōkòn)
- fraud, deceit, trick
- a mock or imitation version of something real
- Western education
- Boko alphabet (Latin script used to write Hausa)
References
- ^ Newman, Paul. 2013. The etymology of Hausa boko. Mega-Chad Miscellaneous Publications, pp. 1-13.http://hdl.handle.net/2022/20965
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian bocca, Spanish boca, from Latin bucca.
Pronunciation
Noun
boko (plural boki)
- (anatomy) mouth
- opening, entrance
- Synonym: enireyo
- (geography) mouth (of a river or stream)
- Synonym: fluvioboko
Derived terms
Japanese
Romanization
boko
- English terms derived from French
- English blends
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/əʊkəʊ
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English dated terms
- West Midlands English
- en:Boxing
- English terms with quotations
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/oko
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- Esperanto neologisms
- Esperanto male roots
- eo:Mammals
- French terms derived from Boko
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French terms spelled with K
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Languages
- Gothic non-lemma forms
- Gothic romanizations
- Hausa terms borrowed from English
- Hausa terms derived from English
- Hausa lemmas
- Hausa nouns
- Hausa masculine nouns
- Ido terms borrowed from Italian
- Ido terms derived from Italian
- Ido terms borrowed from Spanish
- Ido terms derived from Spanish
- Ido terms derived from Latin
- Ido terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ido lemmas
- Ido nouns
- io:Anatomy
- io:Geography
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations