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bok

/bɒk/US/bɑk/

bok adjective: keen or willing.

Adjective

bok

  1. (South Africa, slang) Keen or willing.
    • "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."

Interjection

  1. 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)

  1. To make the clucking sound of a chicken.

Proper noun capitalized: Bok

Bok (plural Boks)

  1. A surname from German, Dutch, or Swedish.

Noun capitalized: Bok

Bok (plural Boks)

  1. (abbreviation, clipping) 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 presentboks
present participlebokking
past participlebokked
pastbokked
Proper noun
pluralBoks
Noun
pluralBoks

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

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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

  1. Bojnord
  2. BoJo
  3. Bojorquez
  4. Bojorquezes
  5. bojutsu
  6. bok
  7. bok choi
  8. bok choy
  9. bok chwee
  10. Bok globule
  11. Bok globules

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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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