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Bouk

//baʊk// noun

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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

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.

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