Bout

Definition: Bout

Bout

Noun

1. (in sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive.

2. A boxing match; "the fight was on television last night".

3. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Note: Bout \Bout\, noun. [A different spelling and application of bought bend.]. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bout

Action

Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).

Amusement

Play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke; (ridicule).

Contention

Wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill.

Difficulty

Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.

Ignorance

In the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked; misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea; (uncertain); caught tripping.

Intemperance

Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.

Irreligion

Skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness; Adjective: want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout; agnosticism.

Reasoning,

In conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt, on the whole, taking one thing with another.

At the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say.

Crosswords: Bout

Breton (be, to be), Dutch (flat-iron, iron), French (bit, butt, conclusion, end, ending, foot, fraction, morsel, nub, peak, piece, point, scrap, small piece, stub, summit, tail end, tip, toe, top), Manx (bolt, bout, fall, round).

How bout these (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

I'm talkin' bout nobody (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Back here thinkin bout you (Sittin' Up In My Room (OST Version); performing artist: Brandy)

There ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me (Ain't Nothing 'Bout You; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

She bout to be steamin, turn it up (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous)

So let me see, boo I'm bout to dead my mans for you (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY)

A bout portant: Pauline Carton (1974)

Au bout du fil (1974)

Bout d'essai (1974)

About a Bout (1973)

Au bout du chemin (1973)

Grandpa (Tell Me Bout Good Ole Days) (performing artist: Judds)

Feels So Good (Don't Worry Bout A Thing) (performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

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Books

• Bout Boomerangs, America's Silent Sport: History, Heroes & How to (reference)

• De Good Nyews Bout Jedus Christ Wa Luke Write (reference)

• L'imaginaire De La Blessure. Étude comparée du Renégat ou un esprit confus d'Albert Camus, de Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, de Light in August de William Faulkner, et de The Snows of Kilimanjaro d'Ernest (reference)

• Real Bout High School (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bout De Papier - French Ed (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• No Limit - Double Play (Da Last Don / I'm Bout It) (reference)

• Real Bout High School - The Final Battle (Vol. 4) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tell Me Who Told You Bout Lovin (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout (reference)

• Real Bout Fatal Fury (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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A group of young European males engaged in a drinking bout. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr..

Mr. Jobard savoure avec délice son sixième pain Viennoise. : Mais au bout de vingt minutes Mr. Jobard goufle et se sent etouffeu. / [Henry Monnier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"En Forme Jusqu'au Bout Des Dents". Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S.S. New York, a 10-round bout, anniversary of Santiago. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nous irons jusqu'au bout = We will go all the way. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

How can you have the gall to stand there with two arms, two legs and a head as if you’re a human being? This is behaviour that a bout of amoebic dysentery would be ashamed of. I bet that even the very lowest form of dysentery amoeba shows up to take its girlfriend out for a quick trot around the stomach lining once in a while

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Unfortunately, a bout with Lyme disease is no guarantee that the illness will be prevented in the future. (references)

Some may have a bout of CIDP followed by spontaneous recovery, while others may have many bouts with partial recovery in between relapses. (references)

You cannot develop shingles unless you have had an earlier bout of chickenpox, and everyone who has had chickenpox is at risk for shingles. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

The Musharraf Government pledged to return the country to a democracy; however, President Musharraf stressed his priority first to build a strong economic and political foundation in order to avert another bout of "sham" democracy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bout": a coughing bout ♦ au bout de son Latin ♦ au bout du compt ♦ drinking bout ♦ drunken bout ♦ fencing bout ♦ it's nothing to laugh about bout ♦ this bout. Additional references.

Ending with "bout": a-f-bout, Herea-bout, ten-bout, three-bout, wrestling-bout.

Albanian

periudhë (chapter, date, day, epoch, hitch, hour, inning, innings, period, phase, run, season, span, stage, streak, stretch, term, tide, time, tour, vintage), garë force. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسابقة (competition, concurrence, contest, play, quiz, quiz programme, race, tournament, tourney), ‏مباراة ملاكمة, ‏نوبة (fit, frenzy, gale, tumult, turn), ‏قتال (arms, battle, combat, conflict, hassle, hostilities, warfare). (various references)

Bulgarian 

счепкване (grapple, mix in, muss, scrap, squabble), тур (round, set), гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), пристъп (accession, attack, eruption, fit, go, onslaught, paroxysm, seizure, spasm, twinge). (various references)

Chinese 

頓 (a time, jerk, meal, spell, stop). (various references)

Czech

zápas (agony, battle, contest, encounter, fight, game, match, struggle, tussle, wrestle, wrestling), záchvat (attack, burst, conniption, dose, fit, gust, onrush, outbreak, seizure, spasm), kolo (bicycle, bike, coil, cycle, hoop, round, wheel). (various references)

Danish

spredningsbredde (bout width, spreading width, width of spread), spredebredde (bout width, carry, reach, spraying width, spreading width, swath, throw, treated swath, width of spread), rækkegødningsspreder (band application attachment, fertilizer bout, fertilizer spout, placement device, ridge fertilizer attachment), optimal spredebredde (bout width, optimum bout width, optimum swath width, swath width). (various references)

Dutch

werkbreedte (bout width, swath width), strooibreedte (bout width, spreading width, width of spread), rijenstrooier (band application attachment, fertilizer bout, fertilizer spout, placement device, ridge fertilizer attachment), optimale werkbreedte (optimum bout width, optimum swath width), oppervlakstrooier (band application attachment, fertilizer bout, fertilizer spout, placement device, ridge fertilizer attachment). (various references)

Farsi 

یک دورمسابقه یابازی , کشمکش (Conflict, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Skirmish, Struggle, Toil, Tussle, Wrestle), تقلا (Agony, Bustle, Effort, Exertion, Muss, Scrabble, Scramble, Slog, Strain, Stress, Strife, Tug, Wrestle). (various references)

Finnish

puuska (attack, gust, spell). (various references)

French

période, crise, combat, attaque, assaut, accès. (various references)

German

runde (beat, circle, company, hand, lap, patrol, rotundly, round, rounds, route, table, walk). (various references)

Greek 

πάλη (battle, combat, conflict, fight, grapple, match, strife, struggle, tussle, wrestle, wrestling), φόρα (impetus, momentum, pace, speed), αγών (agent, combat, game, heave, spar, strife, struggle, tourney, tug, tussle). (various references)

Hebrew 

התקף (assault, attack, fit, spasm), התעסקות (engagement, occupation, occupying oneself in). (various references)

Hungarian

küzdelem (combat, contention, contest, fight, fray, pull, scramble, strife, striving, struggle, tussle). (various references)

Indonesian

serangan (inroad, offence, onrush, onset), pertandingan (contest, event, game, match, tournament), penyakit (ailment, disease, malady), penderitaan (affiction, infliction, suffering). (various references)

Italian

prova (approval, attempt, check, demonstration, essay, event, evidence, examination, experiment, fitting, probation, proof, rehearsal, sample, shot, sign, test, token, trial, try), partita (batch, entry, game, lot, match, parcel, play, round, set, stock), incontro (encounter, encountered, match, meeting, round, up to), gara (championship, competition, contest, match, meeting, race, tender), colpo (bang, beat, blow, buffet, bump, chop, clap, clout, dab, dash, fit, flap, flick, hit, hitch, hoot, jab, knock, pelt, punch, punishment, putt, rap, shock, shot, slam, slap, sock, splash, stamp, sting, strike, stroke, thump, thwack, whack), attacco (access, aggression, assault, attack, binding, connection, connexion, fastening, fit, junction, offense, onfall, onset, paroxysm, seizure, spasm, team, thrust, turn), accesso (access, adit, admission, admittance, approach, attack, entrance, entry, fit, spasm, whiplash). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

試合　 (contest, game, match), 試合 (contest, game, match), 手合わせ (contest, game), 勝負 (contest, game, match, victory or defeat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しあい (contest, game, match), しょうぶ (contest, game, iris, match, militarism, victory or defeat, warlike spirit), てあわせ (contest, game). (various references)

Korean 

시합. (various references)

Manx

bout (bolt, fall, round). (various references)

Pig Latin

outbay.(various references)

Portuguese

turno (detachment, rank, rotation), crise (aggression, attack, conjuncture, crisis, depression, emergency, fit, head, shortage, slump), consentimento (accession, accord, acquiescence, adhesion, admission, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, authorization, consent, permission, sanction), ataque (aggression, assault, attempt, fit, fling, gust, impugnment, invasion, investment, offensive, onfall, onrush, onset, outburst, paroxysm, rush, sally, shock), assalto (assault, attack, blow, break-in, burglary, flaw, garotte, garrotte, mugging, onfall, onset, push, raid, robbery, rush, shock), acesso (access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, attact, door, entry, flush, gateway, outburst, paroxysm, promotion, sally, stroke, touch). (various references)

Romanian

rând (batch, file, innings, it, line, queue, range, rank, round, row, series, stage, stem, string, succession, time, train, turn), prindere (catch, catchment, grip, gripe, hold, hug, nip, seizure, take, taking), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), datã (data, date, datum, day, facts, once, sitting, time), crizã (access, acme, attack, climacteric, crisis, depression, fit, head, juncture, push, slump, spasm, turn), competiţie (competition, contest, event, match, meeting, strife), apucare (catch, clutch, grab, grapnel, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, nip, pluck, prehension, purchase, seizing, seizure, snatch). (various references)

Russian 

схватка (grapple, run across, run-in, scramble, skirmish), раз (now, once, time, times), тур (aurochs, gabion, tour), приступ (access, attack, fit, fit of, seizure, seizures, stroke, tantrum), припадок (access, attack, fit, paroxysm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

takmičenje (competition, contention, contest, meet, tournament), nastup (advent, appearance, attack, burst, conniption, fit, flash, onset, seizure), napad (aggression, assault, attack, attempt, broadside, offence, offense, offensive, onfall, push, strike, thrust, touch). (various references)

Spanish

rato (bit, instant, rate, spell, tick, time, while). (various references)

Swedish

omgång (batch, circle, feed, leg, once-over, round turn, set, set (of clothes), set of clothes), dryckeslag (bust). (various references)

Turkish

zaman (cycle, date, day, father time, hour, sands, season, tense, time, when, while, whilst), yarışma (competition, contest, contestation, emulation, event, match, meet, racing, rivalry), süre (continuance, duration, interval, length, notice, period, respite, run, screen time, space, span, stretch, term, time, while), nöbet (attack, guard duty, ictus, invasion, paroxysm, police, post, sentry, sentry go, spell, tour, turn, turn of duty, turn of work, watch), müsabaka, müddet, kriz (acme, attack, conjuncture, crisis, fit, ictus, invasion, paroxysm, spell), devre (chukker, circuit, cycle, half, period, session, term). (various references)

Ukrainian

решето (reddle, riddle, screen, sieve), раз (now, once, time), тур (tour), зустріч (appointment, encounter, greeting, meeting, reception, thrust), заїзд, припадок (access, accession, fit, rapture, stroke, wing-ding). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lần (move), lượt (time, turn), cuộc chiến đấu (struggle), cuộc đọ sức nhân dịp này. (various references)

Welsh

term (term), sbel (spell), ornest (combat, contest, duel), ffrwgwd (affray, brawl, squabble). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "bout": boutique, boutiques, bouton, boutonniere, boutonnieres, boutons, bouts. (additional references)

Words ending with "bout": about, gadabout, hereabout, knockabout, layabout, marabout, roundabout, rouseabout, roustabout, rubout, runabout, stirabout, thereabout, turnabout, walkabout, whereabout. (additional references)

Words containing "bout": gadabouts, hereabouts, knockabouts, layabouts, marabouts, roundaboutness, roundaboutnesses, roundabouts, rouseabouts, roustabouts, rubouts, runabouts, stirabouts, thereabouts, turnabouts, walkabouts, whereabouts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Batut, bauf, bcot, Beuth, bhut, Biott, bitu, biui, Biut, blout, Blut, Bluto, Bodum, boet, Boeti, boft, bogt, boit, Bokum, Bokun, bont, booust, boowt, bopt, boqt, bort, Borut, bott, botulf, Botur, bou, bouc, boue, Bouet, boug, bount, boup, boust, boute, bouth, boutu, bouty, Bouw, bouwt, bouy, bouz, bowt, Boyt, boyu, bput, bui, bujt, buoa, buoz, buto, Butu, buute, eboot, Fojut, Mboui, obu, vout. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bot, but, out, tub.

-2 letters: bo, to, ut.

+1 letter: about, bouts, buteo, doubt, outby, turbo.

+2 letters: bought, bounty, bouton, brulot, burbot, burton, buteos, button, buyout, cobnut, doubts, obtund, obtuse, outbeg, outbid, outbox, outbuy, outbye, robust, rubato, rubout, subito, sublot, tabour, turbos, turbot, unbolt.

+3 letters: abought, autobus, backout, bailout, beshout, blowout, boatful, boletus, bosquet, botulin, bouquet, boutons, brought, brulots, bumboat, buoyant, burbots, burgout, burnout, burrito, burtons, butanol, buttock, buttons, buttony, buyouts, cobnuts, combust, doublet, doubted, doubter, gumboot, gunboat, hautboy, holibut, obtrude, obtunds, obtuser, outback, outbake, outbark, outbawl, outbeam, outbegs, outbids, outbrag, outbred, outbulk, outburn, outbuys, redoubt, robusta, rubatos, rubouts, subatom, sublots, subplot, subtone, tabouli, tabours, tambour, trouble, tugboat, turbots, unbolts.