bout

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbaʊt/ (Canada) IPA(key): /bʌʊt/ Rhymes: -aʊt, -ʌʊt Homophone: 'bout === Etymology 1 === From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow +‎ -t. Doublet of bight and bought. For the sense development compare bender. ==== Noun ==== bout (plural bouts) A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness. Synonym: attack (boxing) A boxing match. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. (roller derby) A roller derby match. A fighting competition. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== bout (third-person singular simple present bouts, present participle bouting, simple past and past participle bouted) To contest a bout. === Etymology 2 === Written form of a reduction of about. ==== Preposition ==== bout (colloquial) Apheretic form of about. === References === === Anagrams === tubo- == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɑu̯t/ Hyphenation: bout Rhymes: -ɑu̯t Homophones: boud, bouwt === Noun === bout m (plural bouten, diminutive boutje n) bolt (threaded metal cylinder) haunch, leg of an animal as food Synonyms: poot, schenkel (vulgar) fart Synonyms: buikwind, scheet, ruft, wind bolt (crossbow arrow) Synonyms: kruisboogbout, schicht (Suriname) thigh bar, rod Synonyms: staaf, stang (archaic) darling, sweetheart, dear Synonyms: lieveling, lieverd, schat, schattebout, schattepatat iron, clothes iron, heater (apparatus for ironing clothing) Synonyms: strijkbout, strijkijzer ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: bout Berbice Creole Dutch: bauta → Caribbean Hindustani: bowtu → Indonesian: baut → Papiamentu: bout → Sranan Tongo: bowtu (shank) → Sranan Tongo: bowtu (bolt) ==== See also ==== moer schroef == French == === Etymology === From Middle French, from Old French bout (“a blow”), derivative of bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. More at bouter. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bu/, (sense 3) /but/, (Québec, popular) /but/ Rhymes: -u Homophones: boue, boues, bous, bou, bout, bouts === Noun === bout m (plural bouts) end, extremity, tip (of a physical object) bit, piece, scrap (nautical) rope (curling) end ==== Derived terms ==== === Verb === bout third-person singular present indicative of bouillir === Further reading === “bout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Old French == === Etymology === From bouter (“to strike”). === Noun === bout oblique singular, m (oblique plural bouz or boutz, nominative singular bouz or boutz, nominative plural bout) end (extremity)