boutとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded variant of 古期英語 byht (“a bend”). ^[1] See bight, bought.

名詞

bout (複数形 bouts)

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

   a bout of drought.

   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 105:

     The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).

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. […]

動詞

bout (三人称単数 現在形 bouts, 現在分詞 bouting, 過去形および過去分詞形 bouted)

1. To contest a bout.

語源 2

Written form of a reduction of about.

前置詞

bout

1. (colloquial) Aphetic form of about

   They're talking bout you!

   Maddy is bout to get beat up!

参照

発音

• IPA^(key): /baʊt/
• Homophone: bout

前置詞

'bout

1. (colloquial or poetic) about.
   • 2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 20:

     That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. I need a man like that.