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bow·el
[bou-uh
l, boul] noun, verb, bow·eled, bow·el·ing or ( especially British ) bow·elled, bow·el·ling. noun
1.
Anatomy.
a.
Usually, bowels. the intestine.
b.
a part of the intestine.
2.
bowels.
a.
the inward or interior parts: the bowels of the earth.
b.
Archaic. feelings of pity or compassion.
verb (used with object)
3.
to disembowel.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English b(o)uel < Old French < Latin botellus little sausage (bot(ulus) sausage + -ellus -elle)
1250–1300; Middle English b(o)uel < Old French < Latin botellus little sausage (bot(ulus) sausage + -ellus -elle)
Related forms
bow·el·less, adjective
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bowel (ˈbaʊəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an intestine, esp the large intestine in man |
| 2. | (plural) innards; entrails |
| 3. | (plural) the deep or innermost part (esp in the phrase the bowels of the earth) |
| 4. | archaic (plural) the emotions, esp of pity or sympathy |
| [C13: from Old French bouel, from Latin botellus a little sausage, from botulus sausage] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
bowel
c.1300, from O.Fr. boele "intestines, bowels, innards" (12c., Mod.Fr. boyau), from M.L. botellus "small intestine," originally "sausage," dim. of botulus "sausage," a word borrowed from Oscan-Umbrian, from PIE *gwet-/*geut- "intestine" (cf. L. guttur "throat," O.E. cwið, Goth. qiþus "belly,
womb," Ger. kutteln "guts, chitterlings"). Greek splankhnon (from the same PIE base as spleen) was a word for the principal internal organs, which also were felt in ancient times to be the seat of various emotions. Greek poets, from Aeschylus down, regarded the bowels as the seat of the more violent passions such as anger and love, but by the Hebrews they were seen as the seat of tender affections, especially kindness, benevolence, and compassion. Splankhnon was used in Septuagint to translate a Hebrew word, and from thence early Bibles in English rendered it in its literal sense as bowels, which thus acquired in English a secondary meaning of "pity, compassion" (late 14c.). But in later editions the word often was translated as heart. Bowel movement is attested by 1874
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
bowel bow·el (bou'əl, boul)
n.
The intestine.
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Science Dictionary
| bowel (bou'əl) Pronunciation Key
The intestine. |
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Bowels definition
(Phil. 1:8; 2:1; Col. 3:12), compassionate feelings; R.V., "tender mercies."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
Staycation is a term the industry coined a few years back in the bowels of this horrible recession.
It's a network of shady arms trading, and in your inflamed bowels, it happens at an unprecedented level.
His bowels were so out of whack that he had to have an enema every third day.
Sensory disturbances can also affect the ability to urinate or control bowels.
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