FromMiddle Englishbught, probably fromOld English*buht(“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant ofOld Englishbyht(“a bend, curve”), fromProto-West Germanic*buhti, fromProto-Germanic*buhtiz(“a bend”).[1]Doublet ofbight andbought.
For the sense development compare Late Latincampānia(“open country, battlefield”) (whence Englishcampaign), from Latincampus(“field”), from Proto-Indo-European*kh₂emp-(“to bend, curve; smooth”).
bout (pluralbouts)
- A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.
about of drought
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, inTrains Illustrated, page105: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 briefbout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).
2001, Susan Stryker,Queer Pulp, page14: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'sbouts with the bottle could be found in his repressed homosexuality.
- (boxing) A boxingmatch.
2024 August 1, Tariq Panja, Jeré Longman, “Italian Boxer Quits Bout, Sparking Furor Over Gender at Olympics”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:An Italian boxer abandoned herbout at the Paris Olympics after only 46 seconds on Thursday, refusing to continue after taking a heavy punch from an Algerian opponent who had been disqualified from last year’s world championships over questions about her eligibility to compete in women’s sports.
- (fencing) Anassault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
- (roller derby) A roller derbymatch.
- A fighting competition.
- (music) Abulge orwidening in amusical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of aguitar.
- (dated) Thegoing andreturning of aplough, or otherimplement used to mark the ground and create aheadland, across afield.
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.”, inThe Farmer's Magazine, page395:The outsidebout 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 ascarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at eachbout.
1922, “An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor”, inThe Commercial Motor, volume34, Temple Press, page32:It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of eachbout of the field.
1976, Claude Culpin,Farm Machinery, page60:The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the lastbout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on.[…]
music: bulge or widening in a musical instrument
going and returning of a plough
bout (third-person singular simple presentbouts,present participlebouting,simple past and past participlebouted)
- To contest a bout.
Written form of areduction ofabout.
bout
- (colloquial)Aphetic form ofabout
They're talkingbout you!
Maddy isbout to get beat up!
FromMiddle Dutchbout, fromOld Dutch*bolt, fromProto-West Germanic*bolt, fromProto-Germanic*bultaz.
bout m (pluralbouten,diminutiveboutje n)
- bolt(threaded metal cylinder)
2004, Wim Ravesteijn, Jan H. Kop,Bouwen in de Archipel. Burgerlijke openbare werken in Nederlands-Indië 1800-2000, page104:Deze werd door specialebouten verbonden.- This was secured with specialbolts.
- haunch,leg of an animal as food
- Synonyms:poot,schenkel
2010, Ilse D'hooge,Het complete Libelle pastaboek:Roer regelmatig om alleboutjes gelijkmatig te kleuren.- Stir regularly to give allhaunches an even colour.
- (vulgar)fart
- Synonyms:buikwind,scheet,ruft,wind
2000 March 31, RAYMOND HOFSTE, “passie voor bruine bonen, "Pffffffrrrtttt" Aaaaaaaaaaa.”, inalt.humor.dutch[2] (Usenet):Debout was niet alleen hard maar stonk ook als een rot ei.- Thefart wasn't just loud but also stank like a rotten egg.
- bolt(crossbow arrow)
- Synonyms:kruisboogbout,schicht
1875, Willem Jacob Hofdijk,De oude schutterij in Nederland, page19:Het lichtere esschenhout diende tot pylen ofbouten.- The lighter ash wood was used for arrows orbolts.
- (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
1986, Jan Terlouw,Gevangenis met een open deur, page21:Debout stoomde nog.- Theclothes iron was still steaming.
FromMiddle French, fromOld Frenchbout(“a blow”), derivative ofbouter(“to strike”), ofGermanic origin. More atbouter.
bout m (pluralbouts)
- end,extremity,tip(of a physical object)
- bit,piece,scrap
- (nautical)rope
- (curling)end
bout
- third-personsingularpresentindicative ofbouillir
Frombouter(“to strike”).
boutoblique singular, m (oblique pluralbouzorboutz,nominative singularbouzorboutz,nominative pluralbout)
- end (extremity)
