bouk

• bouke

From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). See also bucket.

• IPA^(key): /baʊk/, /bəʊk/

bouk (plural bouks)

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

• Kubo, boku, buko

• booke, book, buc, buk, boyke, bouke

From Old English būc, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz.

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

bouk (plural boukes or bouken)

1. belly, stomach
2. body (especially a corpse)
3. The main portion of a structure

• English: bouk (obsolete)
• Scots: bouk, bowk, buik

• “bǒuk (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.