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==Etymology==
− It is probably a variant of the obsolete [[bought]], a bend, curve or loop (1468, earlier Middle English bught, before 1400),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *buht, a variant of byht, a bend (see [[bight]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) or from Low German bucht.^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) It was associated with bout, a shortening of [[about]].^(Hoad 1986)^(SOED 2002)
+ It is probably a variant of the obsolete [[bought]], a bend, curve or loop (1468, earlier [[enm|bught]], before 1400),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) perhaps from an unrecorded [[ang|*buht]], a variant of [[m|ang|byht]], a bend (see [[bight]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) or from [[nds|bucht]].^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) It was associated with bout, a shortening of [[about]].^(Hoad 1986)^(SOED 2002)
==Earliest recorded meaning==