bout

nomverbeprépositioncourant dans les dialogues

Canada//bʌʊt//
//ˈbaʊt//

A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.

nom

1
A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
a bout of drought
a coughing bout
a long bout of the flu
I've boxed in exhibition bouts to entertain the crowds.
2
A boxing match.
An Italian boxer abandoned her bout at the Paris Olympics after only 46 seconds on Thursday, refusing to continue after taking a heavy punch from an Algerian opponent who had been disqualified from last year’s world championships over questions about her eligibility to compete in women’s sports.
3
An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4
A roller derby match.
5
A fighting competition.
Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
6
A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
7
vieilliThe going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
The outside bout of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade […] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each bout.
It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.
The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. […]

Étymologie

From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht. For the sense development compare bender.

verbe

1
To contest a bout.

préposition

1
Apheretic form of about.
They're talking bout you!
Maddy is bout to get beat up!

Étymologie

Written form of a reduction of about.

Formes

pluriel: bouts
passé: bouted
participe passé: bouted
participe présent: bouting
3ᵉ personne du singulier: bouts

Bourbon · A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled…bourgeois · Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and…Bourgeois · A surname from French.

bout · A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.

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

Les pages voisines — L'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.