bowel
/ˈbaʊ.əl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.55 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
noun
The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
Example Sentences
- "And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out."
- "Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes, UUhich glided through the bowels of the Greekes."
- "The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship."
- "His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle."
- "Thou thing of no bowels, thou!"
- "Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bouel, boiel, botellus