bowels

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaʊ.əlz/ Rhymes: -aʊəlz Hyphenation: bow‧els === Noun === bowels pl (plural only) The deepest or innermost part. Synonyms: centre/center, core, heart The concept or quality that defines something at its very core. Synonyms: crux, essence, guts; see also Thesaurus:gist The intestines. Synonyms: entrails, guts, innards, insides Compassion, sympathy. Synonyms: fellow feeling, pity; see also Thesaurus:compassion (obsolete) The body as the source of offspring. 1751, Thomas Skinner, “A Sermon preach’d at the Ma’nor of Peace, in the County of Hampshire, on May the 9th, 1751” in Alfred Baylies Page, Reverend Grindall Rawson and his Ministry, 1907, p. 9,[2] Had you been their natural Parents, and they the Children of your own Bowels, Methinks, you could not have Contributed much more Bountifully to their Assistance […] ==== Derived terms ==== bowelless (obsolete) move one's bowels ==== Translations ==== === Noun === bowels plural of bowel === Anagrams === Belows, Blowes, Bowles, Lebows, blowes, blowse, bowles, elbows