bout
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈbaʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (Canada) IPA(key): /bʌʊt/
- Rhymes: -aʊt, -ʌʊt
- Homophone: 'bout
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English bught, 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”). [1] Doublet of bight and bought.
Noun edit
bout (plural bouts)
- A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.
- a bout of drought.
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 105:
- The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).
- 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 14:
- Jackson won lasting fame for his treatment of an alcoholic's painful disintegration in his first novel, The Lost Weekend, in which he suggested that the root of his protagonist's bouts with the bottle could be found in his repressed homosexuality.
- (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.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
- Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
- (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.
- 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.”, 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”, in The Commercial Motor, volume 34, 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 edit
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Verb edit
bout (third-person singular simple present bouts, present participle bouting, simple past and past participle bouted)
- To contest a bout.
Etymology 2 edit
Written form of a reduction of about.
Preposition edit
bout
- (colloquial) Aphetic form of about
- They're talking bout you!
- Maddy is bout to get beat up!
References edit
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bout m (plural bouten, diminutive boutje n)
- bolt (threaded metal cylinder)
- 2004, Wim Ravesteijn, Jan H. Kop, Bouwen in de Archipel. Burgerlijke openbare werken in Nederlands-Indië 1800-2000, page 104:
- Deze werd door speciale bouten verbonden.
- This was secured with special bolts.
- haunch, leg of an animal as food
- 2010, Ilse D'hooge, Het complete Libelle pastaboek:
- Roer regelmatig om alle boutjes gelijkmatig te kleuren.
- Stir regularly to give all haunches an even colour.
- (vulgar) fart
- bolt (crossbow arrow)
- Synonyms: kruisboogbout, schicht
- 1875, Willem Jacob Hofdijk, De oude schutterij in Nederland, page 19:
- Het lichtere esschenhout diende tot pylen of bouten.
- The lighter ash wood was used for arrows or bolts.
- (Suriname) thigh
- bar, rod
- (archaic) darling, sweetheart, dear
- Synonyms: lieverd, lieveling, schat, schattebout
- iron (apparatus for ironing clothing)
- Synonyms: strijkbout, strijkijzer
- 1986, Jan Terlouw, Gevangenis met een open deur, page 21:
- De bout stoomde nog.
- The clothes iron was still steaming.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Berbice Creole Dutch: bauta
- → Caribbean Hindustani: bowtu
- → Indonesian: baut
- → Papiamentu: bout
- → Sranan Tongo: bowtu (shank)
- → Sranan Tongo: bowtu (bolt)
See also edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French, from Old French bout (“a blow”), derivative of bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. More at bouter.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /bu/, (sense 3) /but/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -u
- Homophones: boue, boues, bous, bou, bout, bouts
Noun edit
bout m (plural bouts)
Derived terms edit
- à bout de
- à bout portant
- à bout (“to the limit, without any room for manoeuvre”)
- à tout bout de champ
- au bout de
- au bout du fil
- avec des bouts de ficelle
- bon bout
- bout à bout
- bout de doigt
- bout de l’an
- bout de sein
- bout du monde
- bout d’essai
- bout filtre
- brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts (“to burn one's candle at both ends”)
- connaître sur le bout des doigts
- de bout en bout (“from start to finish, from one end to the other”)
- debout
- filer par le bout
- joindre les deux bouts
- jusqu’au bout
- jusqu’au bout (“all the way, to the bitter end”)
- mener par le bout du nez
- montrer le bout de son nez
- ne pas être au bout de ses peines
- ne pas être au bout de ses surprises
- ne pas regarder plus loin que le bout de son nez
- ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez
- par le bon bout
- pousser à bout
- regarder par le petit bout de la lorgnette
- remercier du bout des lèvres
- sur le bout de la langue
- tailler le bout de gras
- tenir le bon bout
- venir à bout
- voir le bout du tunnel
Verb edit
bout
Further reading edit
- “bout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From bouter (“to strike”).
Noun edit
bout oblique singular, m (oblique plural bouz or boutz, nominative singular bouz or boutz, nominative plural bout)
- end (extremity)