bout

See also: 'bout

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaʊt/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /bʌʊt/

Etymology 1

From Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded Old English variant of byht (“a bend”). [1] See bight, bought.

Noun

bout (plural bouts)

  1. A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant
    a bout of drought.
  2. (boxing) A boxing match.
  3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
  4. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
  5. A fighting competition.
  6. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
  7. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
    • 1809, A Letter to Sir John Sinclair […] containing a Statement of the System under which a considerable Farm is profitably managed in Hertfordshire. Given at the request of the Board. By Thomas Greg, Esq., published in The Farmer's Magazine, page 395:
      The outside bout of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade […] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each bout.
    • 1922, An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor, published in The Commercial Motor, volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:
      It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.
    • 1976, Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery, page 60:
      The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. […]
Translations

Verb

bout (third-person singular simple present bouts, present participle bouting, simple past and past participle bouted)

  1. To contest a bout.

Etymology 2

Written form of a reduction of about.

Preposition

bout

  1. (colloquial) about
    They're talking bout you!
    Maddy is bout to get beat up!

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz. Compare German Bolzen, West Frisian bout, English bolt, Danish bolt, Icelandic bolti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑu̯t/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑu̯t
  • Homophones: boud, bouwt

Noun

bout m (plural bouten, diminutive boutje n)

  1. bolt (threaded metal cylinder)
  2. haunch, leg of an animal as food
    Synonym: poot
  3. (vulgar) fart
    Synonyms: scheet, ruft, wind
  4. bolt (crossbow arrow)
    Synonyms: kruisboogbout, schicht
  5. bar, rod
    Synonyms: staaf, stang
  6. (archaic) darling, sweetheart, dear
    Synonyms: lieverd, lieveling, schat, schattebout
  7. iron (apparatus for ironing clothing)
    Synonyms: strijkbout, strijkijzer

Derived terms

See also

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/
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  • Rhymes: -u
  • Homophones: boue, bous

Noun

bout m (plural bouts)

  1. end, extremity, tip (of a physical object)
  2. bit, piece, scrap
  3. (nautical) rope

Derived terms

Verb

bout

  1. third-person singular present indicative of bouillir

Further reading

Old French

Noun

bout m (oblique plural bouz or boutz, nominative singular bouz or boutz, nominative plural bout)

  1. end (extremity)
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