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bouk

/buːk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bouk
IPA
/buːk/
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The belly.

British usage; Obsolete

noun

The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.

British usage

noun

The carcass of a slaughtered animal.

British usage

Etymology

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: bouk, būc, *būk, *būkaz, *bʰōw-

Regional Pronunciation

  • British English: /buːk/

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

bouks (plural) bouke (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce bouk?
The recorded pronunciation is /buːk/.
What does bouk mean?
The belly.
Where does bouk come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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