woak

English

Etymology

Like one, the word oak acquired an intrusive initial /w/ in some dialects beginning already in the 1400s with Middle English wocke (“oak”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /woʊk/
  • Rhymes: -oʊk

Noun

woak (plural woaks)

  1. (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak.
    • 1890, Sydney Savory Buckman, John Darke's Sojourn, section XIV:
      When I'd a-hung un up in th' woak tree […]
    • 1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, section 78:
      As we wer catchèn vrom our laps / Below a woak our bits an' draps […]

References

  1. ^ Christopher Upward, George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2011), section "O"

Anagrams

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

Compare Low German waak; German wach.

Adjective

woak

  1. awake
  • woakje
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