The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
bouk (plural bouks)
(UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
(UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
(UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
• Kubo, boku, buko
Source: Wiktionary
Bouk, n. Etym: [AS. bücbauch, Icel. bü body.]
1. The body. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Bulk; volume. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.