burk

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɜːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɝk/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
• Homophones: berk, birk, Bourke, Burke, burke

burk (third-person singular simple present burks, present participle burking, simple past and past participle burked)

1. (intransitive, slang, Southern US) To vomit.

   It was nasty, y’all. She just burked all over my sedan.

• BRUK

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈburk/
• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈburk/
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  • (Goral):
    • (Podhale) IPA^(key): /ˈburk/

burk m inan

1. (Middle Polish, Far Masovian, Suchożebry, Podhale) alternative form of bruk (“cobblestone; stony ground”)

• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “burk”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Wiesław Morawski (22.04.2013) “BRUK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Jan Karłowicz (1900) “burk”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 122

From Old Swedish budhker, from Old Norse buðkr. Related to German Bottich. Compare dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk burk.

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burk c

1. pot, can, jar; an inflexible vessel, usually with lid and often approximately cylindrical, used for storage
2. (slang) TV set
3. (slang) computer case
4. (slang) sidecar (on a motorcycle, chiefly in the context of competitions)
5. (slang) idiot

• (TV set): dumburk
• (computer case): datorlåda, datorchassi

• burk in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• burk in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• burk in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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