| 释义 |
bow·el
I. \ˈbau̇(ə)l, esp S -au̇wəl\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French boel, boiel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin, small sausage, diminutive of Latin botulus sausage; probably akin to Old English cwith belly, womb, Old High German quiti vulva, Old Norse kvithr belly, womb, Gothic qithus stomach, womb
1. : the intestine or one of its divisions : gut — usually used in plural except in medical use
< the large bowel >
< move your bowels >
2.
a. obsolete
(1) : an internal organ
(2) : the inside parts together
b. archaic : the seat of pity or tenderness
< thou thing of no bowels — Shakespeare >
< if you have any bowels of compassion >
or of courage : guts, heart — usually used in plural
< in the matter of backbone, brains, and bowels — Rudyard Kipling >
3. bowels plural : the interior parts; especially : the deep or remote parts
< deep in the bowels of the earth >
< dark, stony bowels of a pyramid — Walter de la Mare >
II. transitive verb
(boweled or bowelled ; boweled or bowelled ; boweling or bowelling ; bowels)
Etymology: Middle English bowelen, from bowel (I)
: eviscerate, disembowel
< hanging and boweling their enemies > |