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polk

polk verb: to dance the polka.

Verb

polk (third-person singular simple present polks, present participle polking, simple past and past participle polked)

  1. (obsolete, slang) To dance the polka.
    • "Several of the visitors then partook for a short time, with evident Parisian gusto, of the pleasures of the dance," yes--we did, and the lovely girls with whom we polked (ladies being one of the Club emollients) were eloquent in praise of our exquisite tournures which were shown to such advantage...1848, Mr. Jolly Green, “The visit of the French national guards to London”, in The New Monthly Magazine

Proper noun capitalized: Polk

Polk (countable and uncountable, plural Polks)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois.
  3. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, named after the county.
  4. A village in Polk County, Nebraska.
  5. A village in Ashland County, Ohio.
  6. A borough in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
  7. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
  8. A town in Washington County, Wisconsin, named after President James K. Polk.
  9. A number of townships, listed under Polk Township.

polk meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

polk in Tamil

கிளர்ச்சி நடனம்

polk in Marathi

पॉलक करण्यासाठी, पोल्क करण्यासाठी

polk in Urdu

پولک کرنا

polk in Bengali

পোল্ক করতে, পোলকে, পোল্ক করার জন্য
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polk in Malayalam
പോൾക്ക്, പോൾക്ക് ചെയ്യാൻ
polk in Gujarati
પોલ્ક કરવા માટે
polk in Odia
ପୋଲ୍କ କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ପୋଲକ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ପୋଲ୍କ କରିବାକୁ
polk in Nepali
पोल्क गर्न

Forms of polk

Verb
third-person singular presentpolks
present participlepolking
past participlepolked
pastpolked
Proper noun
pluralPolks

Origin of polk

* As a Scottish surname, shortened from Pollock. * As a Upper Sorbian surname Półk, Pólk, probably shortened from a personal name based on Proto-Slavic *plъkъ (“army, crowd”), see Polka. * As an East German surname of Slavic origin, variant of Polke, itself from a Silesian form of Polish Bolesław.

Words formed from polk

Questions about polk

What does polk mean?
Polk means to dance the polka.
What is polk in Tamil?
Polk in Tamil is கிளர்ச்சி நடனம். See Polk meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is polk?
Polk can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of polk?
The past tense of polk is polked.

Words near polk in the dictionary

  1. Poliwes
  2. Polizzi
  3. Polizzis
  4. polje
  5. poljes
  6. polk
  7. Polk County
  8. polka
  9. polka dot
  10. polka dots
  11. polka dotted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polk (page history and authors); Polk (page history and authors); polk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); polk (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); polk (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); polk (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); polk (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); polk (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); polk (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); polk (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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