bouk

See also: Bouk

English

Alternative forms

• bouke

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”).

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”). See also bucket.

The modern pronunciation is either a spelling pronunciation or dialectal; compare puck, suck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʊk/, /bəʊk/

Noun

bouk (plural bouks)

1. (UK dialectal or 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.

Anagrams

• Kubo, boku, buko

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• bou
• boub

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠouk]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠewik/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩwik}

Noun

bouk

1. a dragonfly

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• booke, book, buc, buk, boyke, bouke

Etymology

From Old English būc, from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

Noun

bouk (plural boukes or bouken)

1. belly, stomach
2. body (especially a corpse)
3. The main portion of a structure

Descendants

• English: bouk (obsolete)
• Scots: bouk, bowk, buik

References

• “bǒuk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.