boud

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

• IPA^(key): /baʊd/
• Rhymes: -aʊd
• Homophone: bowed

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

• Doub, budo, doub

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boud (plural boude)

1. buttock

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.

• IPA^(key): /bɑu̯t/

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• Hyphenation: boud
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t
• Homophone: bout

boud (comparative bouder, superlative boudst)

1. bold, brave