bowel
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈbaʊ.əl//
- //baʊl//
A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
nom
- 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
figuréThe (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
archaïqueThe 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
obsolèteoffspring
Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
Étymologie
Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau.
verbe
- 1
archaïqueTo disembowel.
Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
Formes
- pluriel
- bowels
- passé
- boweled, bowelled
- participe passé
- boweled, bowelled
- participe présent
- boweling, bowelling
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- bowels
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.