bowel

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle French boel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”).

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Noun [edit]

bowel (plural bowels)

  1. (chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
  2. (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:
      And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
  3. (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
    The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
  4. (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.

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Translations [edit]

large intestine
intestines, entrails
interior of something
seat of pity or gentler emotions

Verb [edit]

bowel (third-person singular simple present bowels, present participle bowelling, simple past and past participle bowelled)

  1. (now rare) To disembowel.
    • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 149:
      Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

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