Bout Definition
bout
bouts
noun
bouts
A contest or match, as of boxing or wrestling.
Webster's New World
A period of time taken up by some specified activity, condition, etc.; spell.
A bout of the flu.
Webster's New World
A fighting competition.
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(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
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verb
To contest a bout.
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preposition
(colloquial) About.
They're talking bout you!
Maddy is bout to get beat up!
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(colloquial or poetic) About.
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Other Word Forms of Bout
Noun
Singular:
bout
Plural:
boutsOrigin of Bout
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From obsolete English bought a turning (influenced by about) from Middle English from bowen to bend, turn bow2
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded Old English variant of byht (“a bend”). See bight, bought.
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Written form of a reduction of "about".
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