Bout vs Gout - What's the difference?
bout | gout |
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
(pathology, not countable) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
(usually, followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
* , Macbeth , act 2, scene 1:
* 1981 , , Children of Men , ch. 20, page 137:
* 2002 , , The Shadow of the Lion ,
(rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)
As nouns the difference between bout and gout
is that bout is a period of something, usually painful or unpleasant while gout is taste, flavour.As a verb bout
is to contest a bout.As a preposition bout
is (colloquial) about.bout
English
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!
gout
English
(wikipedia gout)Noun
(en noun)- I see thee still,
- And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
- [S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.
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- Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.