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bouk

/baʊk/UK/buːk/

bouk noun: the belly.

Noun

bouk (plural bouks)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) The belly.
  2. (UK, dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
  3. (UK, dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.

Forms of bouk

pluralbouks
alternative formbouke

Origin of bouk

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”). Doublet of bucket. 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”). For the phonetic development, compare puck, suck.

Questions about bouk

What does bouk mean?
Bouk means the belly.
What part of speech is bouk?
Bouk is a noun.
How do you pronounce bouk?
Bouk is pronounced /baʊk/.
What is the plural of bouk?
The plural of bouk is bouks.

Words near bouk in the dictionary

  1. bouj
  2. bouja
  3. Boujailles
  4. boujee
  5. boujée
  6. bouk
  7. Boukedes
  8. boukha
  9. Boukhechba
  10. Bouknight
  11. Bouknights

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