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boko

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈbəʊ.kəʊ/
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/ˈbəʊ.kəʊ/ · /ˈboʊ.koʊ/ (US)

Definition of boko

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Australia, West-Midlands, dated)The nose.
    “[…] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.”
    “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!"”
    “He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.”
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noun

  1. (Australia, West-Midlands, dated)The nose.
    “[…] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.”
    “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!"”
    “He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.”
  2. A member of the Boko people.

name

  1. A people of Benin and Nigeria.
  2. A Mande language spoken by the Boko people.
  3. Boko Haram.
  4. A town in Niangoloko Department, Comoé Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso.
  5. A district in the Pool region of southeastern Republic of the Congo.
  6. The Latin script alphabet used for the Hausa language.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins: * From beak (“nose”) * From French beaucoup (“very much”) * Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut * From boke (“point; thrust”) * From poke, as in poke one's nose into

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