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adjective

bok

bok
adjective
1
Eager or willing to do something.
"She was bok to help out however she could."
interjection
1
The sound a chicken makes while clucking.
""Bok, bok!" went the hen as it strutted across the yard."
verb
1
To make the clucking sound of a chicken.
"The rooster bokked loudly at dawn."

How to Use Bok

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishEither a chicken's cluck, or (less commonly) being keen to do something.

Word Forms

bokked past tense, Boks plural, boks singular

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Etymology

From Afrikaans bok, a doublet of the English word "buck."

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