bowel

nounverbattested in dialogue

//ˈbaʊ.əl//
//baʊl//

A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

noun

1
A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
2
The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes, UUhich glided through the bowels of the Greekes.
3
figurativeThe (deep) interior of something.
The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
4
archaicThe seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
Thou thing of no bowels, thou!
Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.
5
obsoleteoffspring
Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau.

verb

1
archaicTo disembowel.
Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

Forms

plural: bowels
past tense: boweled, bowelled
past participle: boweled, bowelled
present participle: boweling, bowelling
third person singular: bowels

boutique · A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes,…bow · A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible…Bow · A surname.

bowel · A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

bowels · The deepest or innermost part.bowie · A Bowie knife.Bowie · A surname.

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