bout
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bout¹
- /ˈbaʊt/
- /bʌʊt/ Canada
Sounds like 'bout · Rhymes with -aʊt, -ʌʊt
Where it comes from
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”). Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht.
For the sense development compare bender.
noun bouts
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A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
a bout of drought
Similar: attack
- A boxing match. An Italian boxer abandoned her bout 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.
- An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
- A roller derby match.
- A fighting competition. Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
- 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. 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
verb bouts · bouting · bouted
- To contest a bout.
bout²
- /ˈbaʊt/
- /bʌʊt/ Canada
Sounds like 'bout · Rhymes with -aʊt, -ʌʊt
Where it comes from
Written form of a reduction of about.
preposition
- Apheretic form of about. They're talking bout you!
Bout³
proper noun Bouts
- A surname
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: fight, fling, spree, turn, round, struggle, outbreak, attack, battle, clump, game, bite, stretch, hunk, combat, end
Translations
Talk about this word "bout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bout. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bout. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bout "bout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bout.Cite this
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