[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bol

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, December 18, 2022

Klingon word: 	bol
Part of speech: 	verb
Definition: 	drool
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(HQ 12.4:8):  If {tlhepQe'} "saliva" is produced, one is said to{tIl} "salivate". If the {tlhepQe'} involuntarily escapes one's lips and dribbles down one's chin, one is said to {bol} "drool." 

(KGT 147):  In its nonslang sense, {bol} does not take an object: {bolpu'} ("He/she has drooled").

SEE:
bolwI'  		traitor (slang n.) (n) 
bol  		betray [someone] (slang v.)

(KGT 147):  This word actually means "drooler" -- that is, one who drools. The nonslang word meaning traitor is {maghwI'} (literally, "one who betrays"). Probably because of the parallel formation of {bolwI'} and {maghwI'} ... the verb {bol} (drool) is sometimes used to mean betray, as if it were equivalent to {magh}. In this usage, {bol}, like {magh}, may take an object; that is, the sentence may indicate who is betrayed:  {mumaghpu'} ("He/she has betrayed me") or {mubolpu'} ("He/she has betrayed me"; literally, "He/she has drooled me").

PUN: 
During the US Civil War southerners working for the Union against the Confederacy were called boll weevils - an insect which destroys cotton crops by burrowing into the cotton bloom (known as a boll), ruining the plant from the inside.

SEE ALSO:
tIl		salivate (v)
tuy' 		spit (v)
tlhIS 		spit out (v)

tlhepQe' 	saliva (n)
'IqnaH 		mucus (n)
qo'qaD 		phlegm (n)

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