bouk
See also: Bouk
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From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”).
Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål buk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). See also bucket.
The modern pronunciation is either a spelling pronunciation or dialectal; compare puck, suck.
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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.
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bouk
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Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old English būc, from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz.
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bouk (plural boukes or bouken)
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- “bǒuk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.