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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 23, 2011
> 
> Klingon word:   bol
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     drool

As used in canon:

  bolpu' 
  He/she has drooled. KGT

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

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"/

More related verbs:
{tlhIS} spit out;  {tuy'} spit


Also note the slang word {bolwI'} "traitor":

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'} (that is, verb plus {-wI'}), 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"). In its nonslang sense, bol does not take an object: bolpu' ("He/she has drooled").

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.


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons