Bouk

//baʊk// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The belly. UK, dialectal, obsolete
  2. 2
    The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself. UK, dialectal
  3. 3
    The carcass of a slaughtered animal. UK, dialectal

Synonyms

All synonyms
stomach

Etymology

From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of bucket. Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål buk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). For the phonetic development, compare puck, suck.

More for "bouk"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.