Definition/Meaning of bout

• English - Noun: bout (plural bouts) A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness. a coughing bout a bout of drought A boxing match . 2024 August 1, Tariq Panja, Jeré Longman, “Italian Boxer Quits Bout, Sparking Furor Over Gender at Olympics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2024: An Italian boxer abandoned her bout at the Paris Olympics after…
• English - Verb: bout (third-person singular simple present bouts, present participle bouting, simple past and past participle bouted) To contest a bout.
• English - Preposition: bout (colloquial) Apheretic form of about . They're talking bout you! Maddy is bout to get beat up!
• English - References: ^ http://dictionary. reference .com/browse/bout?s=t
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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”). Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht . For the sense development compare bender .…