• IPA: /ˈbaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA: /bʌʊt/

From Middle English bught, probably from Old English *buht, an unrecorded variant of Old English byht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz.

bout (plural bouts)

1. A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.

   a bout of drought

2. (boxing) A boxing match.
3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
5. A fighting competition.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner's Sons […], →OCLC ↗:

     Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.

6. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
7. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.

• Italian: attacco
• Russian: период
• Spanish: racha

• Russian: поединок
• Spanish: encuentro

• Portuguese: ataque

• Russian: поединок

bout (bouts, present participle bouting; simple past and past participle bouted)

1. To contest a bout.

Written form of a reduction (linguistics) of about.

1. (colloquial) Aphetic form of about

   They're talking bout you!

   Maddy is bout to get beat up!

1. Surname