bowelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: bou'əl, boul, IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊ.əl/, /baʊl/
  • 韻: -aʊəl, -aʊl

名詞

bowel (複数形 bowels)

1. (chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
2. (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:

     And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.

3. (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.

   The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.

   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, I. i. 129:

     His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.

4. (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, II. i. 48

     Thou thing of no bowels, thou!

   • (Can we date this quote by Fuller かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.

5. (obsolete, in the plural) offspring
   • 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure, for Measure, III. i. 29:

     Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,

派生語

動詞

bowel (third-person singular simple present bowels, present participle bowelling or (米国用法) boweling, simple past and past participle bowelled or (米国用法) boweled)

1. (now まれに) To disembowel.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 149:

     Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

参考

• large bowel
• small bowel
• small intestine
• colon
• laxative
• tharm

アナグラム

• Below, Blowe, Lebow, below, blowe, bowle, elbow