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Word entry · 4 letters

bout

Best crossword clue

"Short contest"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈbaʊt/Part of speech nounSorted botuStarts with BEnds with T2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking

Word origin

From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought.

Used in a sentence

  • a bout of drought
  • a coughing bout
  • a long bout of the flu

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Short contest4 letters
02Match or contest4 letters

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