bok
/bɒk/US/bɑk/
bok adjective: keen or willing.
Adjective
bok
Interjection
- The clucking sound of a chicken.
- And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices
- 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!'2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory
Verb
bok (third-person singular simple present boks, present participle bokking, simple past and past participle bokked)
- To make the clucking sound of a chicken.
Proper noun capitalized: Bok
Bok (plural Boks)
- A surname from German, Dutch, or Swedish.
Noun capitalized: Bok
Bok (plural Boks)
- Clipping of Springbok, a player for the South African national rugby team.
- Between minutes 30 and 33 England laid siege to the Bok tryline but could not get through.2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times
- Yes, we lifted the World Cup in 2003 (I can still effortlessly visualise Jonny's drop kick), but the Boks have won four, the Kiwis three and the Aussies two. Our women, thank God, are so much better.2026 March 14, Robert Taylor, “It's Finally Time to Admit that the English Are Rubbish at Sport”, in The Telegraph
Forms of bok
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | boks |
| present participle | bokking |
| past participle | bokked |
| past | bokked |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Boks |
| Noun | |
| plural | Boks |
Origin of bok
From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).
Imitative
From German Bock and Dutch bok (“buck, he-goat”) and from Swedish bok (“beech”).
Words formed from bok
Phrases with bok
Words that rhyme with bok
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sock
- unlock
- baroque
- flock
- locke
- mock
- ad hoc
- frock
- unblock
- undock
- VOC
- chock
- defrock
- nock
- o'clock
- prairie dock
- proc
- smock
- acock
- amok
- bangkok
- bloc
- Carvel Rock
- doc
- grok
- hough
- loch
- pock
- slock
- wedlock
- wok
- 24-hour clock
- bock
- brocc
- choc
- croc
- digital clock
- drop lock
- Farallon Rock
- flight sock
- freezer block
- gock
- hashlock
- hock
- kozachok
- lough
- Nixon shock
- oc
Questions about bok
- What does bok mean?
- Bok means keen or willing.
- What part of speech is bok?
- Bok can be an adjective, an interjection, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bok?
- Bok is pronounced /bɑk/ (US).
Words near bok in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bok (page history and authors); Bok (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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