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boomkin

boomkin is the alternative form of bumkin.

Meaning of bumkin

Noun

bumkin (plural bumkins)

  1. A short outrigger projecting from the side of the aft part of a square-rigged sailing ship, used as an attachment point for a rope (brace) used to set a yard-arm at different angles to a mast so to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind.

Forms of boomkin

pluralboomkins

Questions about boomkin

What is boomkin the alternative form of?
Boomkin is the alternative form of bumkin.

Words near boomkin in the dictionary

  1. booming
  2. booming off
  3. boomingly
  4. boomings
  5. boomity
  6. boomkin
  7. boomkins
  8. boomless
  9. boomless cruise
  10. boomlet
  11. boomlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boomkin (page history and authors); bumkin (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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