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burk

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English

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burk (third-person singular simple present burks, present participle burking, simple past and past participle burked)

  1. (intransitive, slang, Southern US) To vomit.
    It was nasty, y’all. She just burked all over my sedan.

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burk m inan

  1. (Middle Polish, Far Masovian, Suchożebry, Podhale) Alternative form of bruk (cobblestone; stony ground)

Further reading

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  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “burk”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Wiesław Morawski (22.04.2013) “BRUK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  • Jan Karłowicz (1900) “burk”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 122

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish budhker, from Old Norse buðkr. Related to German Bottich. Compare dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk burk.

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burk c

  1. pot, can, jar; an inflexible vessel, usually with lid and often approximately cylindrical, used for storage
  2. (slang) TV set
  3. (slang) computer case
  4. (slang) sidecar (on a motorcycle, chiefly in the context of competitions)
  5. (slang) idiot

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Declension of burk
nominative genitive
singular indefinite burk burks
definite burken burkens
plural indefinite burkar burkars
definite burkarna burkarnas

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