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Boko

Boko

See also: boko, bòkò, and bōkō

English

Proper noun

Boko

  1. A people of Benin and Nigeria.
  2. (linguistics) A Mande language spoken by the Boko people.
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Synonyms

Noun

Boko ‎(plural Bokos)

  1. A member of the Boko people.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See Boko Haram.

Proper noun

Boko

  1. Boko Haram.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Boko

  1. A town in the Niangoloko Department of Comoé Province in southwestern Burkina Faso.
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Etymology 4

Proper noun

Boko

  1. A district in the Pool region of southeastern Republic of the Congo.
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French

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Boko m

  1. Boko (town in Burkina Faso)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Boko m

  1. Boko (district in Republic of the Congo)

boko

boko

See also: Boko, bòkò, and bōkō

English

Noun

boko ‎(plural bokos)

  1. (dated, West Midlands, originally boxing) the nose.
    • 1943, W. E. 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, issue 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 Wikisaurus:nose

Anagrams

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eric Partridge (2003) Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, Routledge, ISBN 9781135795429, page 474
  2. 1 2 3 4 David Crystal (2014) Words in Time and Place, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199680474, page 26

Esperanto

Noun

boko ‎(accusative singular bokon, plural bokoj, accusative plural bokojn)

  1. (neologism) buck (male deer, goat, or other ruminant)[1]

References

  1. ↑ Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (1970) Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (in Esperanto), 3 edition, Paris, ISBN 2950243231, published 1987, page 116: “bok/o Ⓝ Virseksulo de remaĉuloj, precipe de kaproj aŭ cervoj.”

French

Etymology

From a word in the Boko language.

Noun

boko m ‎(uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) Boko

Synonyms

Gothic

Romanization

bōkō

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐍉

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian bocca, Spanish boca, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbo.ko/

Noun

boko (plural boki)

  1. (anatomy) mouth
  2. opening, entrance
  3. (geography) mouth (of a river or stream)

Synonyms

  • (2) enireyo
  • (3) fluvioboko

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

boko

  1. rōmaji reading of ぼこ

Etymology

From a word in the Boko language.

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