Bout vs Baggage - What's the difference?
bout | baggage |
A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant
(boxing) A boxing match.
(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
(roller derby) A roller derby match.
A fighting competition.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
(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:
* 1922 , An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor'', published in ''The Commercial Motor , volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:
* 1976 , Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery , page 60:
(colloquial) about
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(usually, uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment
* {{quote-book, year=1929, author=Charles Georges Souli, title=Eastern Shame Girl, chapter=, edition=
, passage=As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages . }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street. }}
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(uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively..
* {{quote-book, year=1846, author=Henry Francis Cary, title=Lives of the English Poets, chapter=, edition=
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(obsolete, countable, pejorative) A woman
* {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages ) felt for their master--pitied their poor master! }}
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Charles Whibley, title=A Book of Scoundrels, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Gertrude Hall, title=Chantecler, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love! }}
(military, countable, and, uncountable) An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
* {{quote-book, year=1865, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History of Friedrich II of Prussia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages , to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross. }}
* 2007 , Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945 , New York: Penguin, p 305:
As nouns the difference between bout and baggage
is that bout is a period of something, usually painful or unpleasant while baggage is (usually|uncountable) luggage; traveling equipment.As a verb bout
is to contest a bout.As a preposition bout
is (colloquial) about.bout
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) bught, probably from an unrecorded (etyl) variant of . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bout?s=t See bight, bought.Noun
(en noun)- a bout of drought .
- Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
- 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 .
- It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.
- 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. [...]
Etymology 2
Written form of a of "about".Preposition
(English prepositions)- they're talking bout you!
- Maddy is bout to get beat up!
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(en-noun)- Please put your baggage in the trunk.
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- He's got a lot of emotional baggage .
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- In Poland, for example, the unknown Boles?aw Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.