boud

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English boude, bude, budde, from Old English budda (beetle).

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Noun

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boud (plural bouds)

  1. (obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: [] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: [] Robert Triphook, [], and William Sancho, [], 1810, →OCLC:
      bowd-eaten malt

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Noun

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boud (plural boude)

  1. buttock

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bald, from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (to blow, swell, inflate). Compare English bold.

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Adjective

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boud (comparative bouder, superlative boudst)

  1. bold, brave

Declension

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Declension of boud
uninflected boud
inflected boude
comparative bouder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial boud bouder het boudst
het boudste
indefinite m./f. sing. boude boudere boudste
n. sing. boud bouder boudste
plural boude boudere boudste
definite boude boudere boudste
partitive bouds bouders

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