bout
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊt/
The English word “bout” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
- A boxing match.
- An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
- A roller derby match.
- A fighting competition.
- A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
- The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
verb
- To contest a bout.
preposition
Etymology
From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), 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”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht. For the sense development compare…
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