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Is holk a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word holk is a Scrabble US word. The word holk is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

H4O1L1K5

Is holk a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word holk is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

H4O1L1K5

Is holk a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word holk is a Words With Friends word. The word holk is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

HOLK,KOHL,

2-letter words (5 found)

HO,KO,LO,OH,OK,

You can make 7 words from holk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of holk

holk ohlk hlok lhok olhk lohk hokl ohkl hkol khol okhl kohl hlko lhko hklo khlo lkho klho olkh lokh oklh kolh lkoh kloh

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word holk. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in holk.

Definitions and meaning of holk

holk

Alternative forms

  • howk, houk (Northern England, Scotland)

Etymology 1

From Middle English holk, from Old English holc, holoc (“hole, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *holuk, from Proto-Germanic *hulukaz (“a hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”). Equivalent to hole +‎ -ock (diminutive ending).

Cognate with Low German holke, hölke (“small hole”), German Holk (“a type of flat-bottomed barge”), Swedish holk (“nest, birdhouse”), dialectal Norwegian holk, hylke (“wooden barrel, cask”), Icelandic hólkur (“hollow cylinder or tube”). Related to hulk.

Noun

holk (plural holks)

  1. (UK dialectal) A hollow cavity.

Etymology 2

From Middle English holken, from Old English *holcian (attested in āholcian, āhlocian (“to dig out”), from Proto-West Germanic *holukōn, derived from the noun above. Cognate with Middle Low German holken, hȫlken (“to hollow out”), German Low German uthöhlken (“to hollow out”).

Verb

holk (third-person singular simple present holks, present participle holking, simple past and past participle holked)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig out; make hollow; hollow out.
  2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig; dig into; pierce; penetrate; investigate; poke.
  3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up; excavate.

Anagrams

  • Kohl, kohl

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

  • hulk, hollek, hollik, hollich, holyk, hulyck

Etymology

Compare Middle High German holche, Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás, “barge”), ἕλκειν (hélkein, “to drag”).

Noun

holk m

  1. hulk (large cargo ship)

References

  • "holk" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish holker, from Proto-Germanic *hulkaz (“cavity, hollow, recess”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”), cognate with English hulk.

Noun

holk c

  1. a nest box, a birdhouse; a hollow part of a tree trunk used as a container or as a birdhouse
    Synonym: fågelholk
  2. a hulk, an old, decommissioned ship (used for storage or housing)
  3. (slang) a pipe stuffed with cannabis, or more rarely a joint

Declension

Related terms

  • batteriholk
  • fågelholk
  • holka
  • holkyxa
  • holkärm
  • starholk

References

  • holk in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • holk in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • holk in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Source: wiktionary.org