different between bout vs straggle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /b??t/
• Homophone: 'bout

Etymology 1

From Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend”), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). See bight, bought.

Noun

bout (plural bouts)

1. A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant.

   a bout of drought.
2. (boxing) A boxing match.
3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
5. A fighting competition.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.

6. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
7. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
   • 1809, A Letter to Sir John Sinclair […] containing a Statement of the System under which a considerable Farm is profitably managed in Hertfordshire. Given at the request of the Board. By Thomas Greg, Esq., published in The Farmer's Magazine, page 395:

     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.

   • 1922, An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor, published in The Commercial Motor, volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:

     It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.

   • 1976, Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery, page 60:

     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. […]

Translations

Verb

bout (third-person singular simple present bouts, present participle bouting, simple past and past participle bouted)

1. To contest a bout.

Etymology 2

Written form of a reduction of about.

Preposition

bout

1. (colloquial) Aphetic form of about

   They're talking bout you!

   Maddy is bout to get beat up!

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?u?t/
• Hyphenation: bout
• Rhymes: -?u?t
• Homophones: boud, bouwt

Noun

bout m (plural bouten, diminutive boutje n)

1. bolt (threaded metal cylinder)
   • 2004, Wim Ravesteijn, Jan H. Kop, Bouwen in de Archipel. Burgerlijke openbare werken in Nederlands-Indië 1800-2000, page 104.

2. haunch, leg of an animal as food
   • 2010, Ilse D'hooge, Het complete Libelle pastaboek.

   Synonyms: poot, schenkel

3. (vulgar) fart

   Synonyms: buikwind, scheet, ruft, wind

4. bolt (crossbow arrow)
   • 1875, Willem Jacob Hofdijk, De oude schutterij in Nederland, page 19.

   Synonyms: kruisboogbout, schicht

5. (Suriname) thigh
6. bar, rod

   Synonyms: staaf, stang

7. (archaic) darling, sweetheart, dear

   Synonyms: lieverd, lieveling, schat, schattebout

8. iron (apparatus for ironing clothing)
   • 1986, Jan Terlouw, Gevangenis met een open deur, page 21.

   Synonyms: strijkbout, strijkijzer

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: baut

See also

• moer
• schroef

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French bout (“a blow”), derivative of bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. More at bouter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu/, (sense 3) /but/
• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: boue, boues, bous, bou, bout, bouts

Noun

bout m (plural bouts)

1. end, extremity, tip (of a physical object)
2. bit, piece, scrap
3. (nautical) rope

Derived terms

Verb

bout

1. third-person singular present indicative of bouillir

Further reading

• “bout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From bouter (“to strike”)

Noun

bout m (oblique plural bouz or boutz, nominative singular bouz or boutz, nominative plural bout)

1. end (extremity)

English

Etymology

From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?æ?l?/
• Rhymes: -æ??l
• Hyphenation: strag?gle

Verb

straggle (third-person singular simple present straggles, present participle straggling, simple past and past participle straggled)

1. To stray from the road, course or line of march.

   He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.

2. To wander about; ramble.
3. To spread at irregular intervals.
4. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

   • Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.

5. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
   • They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

Derived terms

• (noun) straggler
• (adverb) stragglingly

Translations

Noun

straggle (plural straggles)

1. An irregular, spread-out group.
2. An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.
   • 1858 Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia

     Nevertheless there is a straggle of pungent sense in it, — like the outskirts of lightning, seen in that dismally wet weather, which the Royal Party had.