[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: poq

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, December 23, 2011
> 
> Klingon word:   poq
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     indigestion

Never used in canon.

Related words:

{pom} 	dysentery
{burgh} 	stomach
{chor} 	belly

{rop} 	be sick/ill

Medical notes:

HQ 12.4 p.8:  When air (or gas) from the stomach works its way up and comes out of the mouth (often noisily), one is said to {ruq} "belch". [...] When, rather than gas, undigested or partially digested food comes up, one is said to {'em}, "vomit", and the matter being vomited, that is, vomit, is called {quy'Ip}. [...] (Maltz was quite amused when he realized that the Klingon word {rech} exhale sounded like the English word "retch" - that is, vomit - but he couldn't explain why he thought it was so funny.)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons