bout
pronunciation
How to pronounce bout in British English:
UK [baʊt]
How to pronounce bout in American English:
US [baʊt]
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- Noun:
- (sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive
- a boxing match
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
Word Origin
- bout
- bout: see bow
- bout (n.)
- 1540s, from Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded Old English variant of byht "a bend," from Proto-Germanic *bukhta- (see bight (n.)). Sense evolved from "a circuit of any kind" (as of a plow) to "a round at any kind of exercise" (1570s), "a round at fighting" (1590s), "a fit of drinking" (1660s).
Example
- 1. The danger is that over time , without another bout of reform , sclerosis will set in .
- 2. Of course , no one is bursting with creative energy during a severe bout of depression or schizophrenia .
- 3. Perhaps the most surprising bout of consolidation and revival , however , has been in latin america .
- 4. But if the ruling saudis continue to rely on bribery and repression , they will surely be blown away in the end-perhaps not in this bout of arab turmoil , but certainly during another one .
- 5. There , by making it harder for anything to get out of the top , the junk will give the drilling mud a better chance in a second bout of arm wrestling .