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Bowel vs Innards - What's the difference?

bowel | innards |

As nouns the difference between bowel and innards

is that bowel is (chiefly|medicine) a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine while innards is .

As a verb bowel

is to disembowel.

bowel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
  • (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
    • And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
  • (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
    • The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
  • * 1592 , , I. i. 129:
    • His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
  • (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
  • * 1602 , , II. i. 48:
    • Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
  • * Fuller
    • Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
  • (obsolete, in plural) offspring
  • * 1604 , , III. i. 29:
    • Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,

    Derived terms

    * bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowel

    Verb

    (bowell)
  • To disembowel.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
    • Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

    See also

    * large bowel * small bowel * small intestine * colon * laxative * tharm

    Anagrams

    *

    innards

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • The internal organs]] of a human or animal; especially viscera, [[intestine, intestines.
  • The inner workings of something; the insides or guts.
    • He took the cover off his computer and looked at the innards .

    Usage notes

    * This word is most frequently used in the plural/collective sense, as above. English pluralia tantum