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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(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.

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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:
bouts

Origin of Bout

  • 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

  • From Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded Old English variant of byht (“a bend”). See bight, bought.

    From Wiktionary

  • Written form of a reduction of "about".

    From Wiktionary

  • Aphetic form of about

    From Wiktionary

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