bocka

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈbɤka]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊkɐ]

Either borrowed from one of Old English pūca (“demon, goblin”); Middle English bugge (compare Welsh bwg); or Irish púca (“hobgoblin”). In any case, probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pūkô.

bocka m (plural bockas or bockyas)

1. hobgoblin, bogeyman, gnome, goblin
2. scarecrow

   Synonyms: bocka brini, boubas, buckaboo

• → English: bucca

From Old English bucca, from Proto-Germanic *bukkô (“male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugo- (“buck”). Doublet of bogh.

bocka m (plural bockas)

1. billy goat, he-goat

   Synonyms: bock, bogh

• “bocka” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Borrowed from Russian бочка (bočka).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈbot͡ʃkɑ/, [ˈbo̞t͡ʃk]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈbot͡ʃkɑ/, [ˈpo̞t͡ʃkɑ]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈbot͡ʃkɑ/, [ˈpo̞t͡ʃkɑ]
• Rhymes: -ot͡ʃk, -ot͡ʃkɑ
• Hyphenation: boc‧ka
• Homophone: pocka

bocka

1. barrel, vat
2. barrelful (a traditional unit of volume)

• puin, pytty

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 426
• Arvo Laanest (1978), Isuri keele ajalooline foneetika ja morfoloogia [The historical phonology and morphology of the Ingrian language]‎^[1], Tallinn, page 26
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 23

From Old Swedish bokka, bukka, from Middle Low German bucken, from Old Saxon *bukkōn, from Proto-West Germanic *bukkōn.

bocka (present bockar, preterite bockade, supine bockat, imperative bocka)

1. (transitive) to bend (to shape sheet metal)
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to bow (to bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference)

• bocka av (“check off, tick off”)
• tack och bock

• bock

• böja
• buga
• nicka
• niga

• bocka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bocka sig in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bocka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bocka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)