boud

English

Etymology

From Middle English boude, bude, budde, from Old English budda (“beetle”).

Noun

boud (plural bouds)

(obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “boud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Doub, budo, doub

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Noun

boud (plural boude)

buttock

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bald, from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Compare English bold.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑu̯t/
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Hyphenation: boud
Rhymes: -ɑu̯t
Homophone: bout

Adjective

boud (comparative bouder, superlative boudst)

(archaic) bold, brave

Inflection

Declension of boud
uninflected	boud
inflected	boude
comparative	bouder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		boud	bouder	het boudst het boudste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	boude	boudere	boudste
	n. sing.	boud	bouder	boudste
	plural	boude	boudere	boudste
definite		boude	boudere	boudste
partitive		bouds	bouders	—

Derived terms