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bouk

Pronunciation: /baʊk/

The English word “bouk” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The belly.
  2. The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
  3. The carcass of a slaughtered animal.

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…

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