Bout
The word bout is used to refer to a short period of illness or involvement in an intense period of activity of a specific kind. Bout can also correspond to a boxing or wrestling match.
Origin
The word bout has been around since the 1540s. First used to mean “a roundabout way”, that meaning is now obsolete. The word derives from the Middle English bught, probably from an old unrecorded Old English variant of byht meaning “a bend”.
Its meaning evolved from “a circuit of any kind” (as of a plough) to “a round at any kind of exercise” in the 1570s. It then came to denote “a round at fighting” from the 1590s and “a fit of illness” by 1938.
Usage
Even though this is only a friendly bout, both boxers are fighting like the championship is on the line.
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