bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊl/
homophone: bole
ipa: /bəwl/
ipa: [bɒʊɫ]
ipa: /bɐʉl/
ipa: [bɒʊɫ]
ipa: [bo̞ːɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /bo(w)l/
note: without the toe–tow merger
ipa: /bɔwl/
ipa: [b̥ou̯]
note: UK, doll–dole merger
ipa: /bɒl/
homophone: boll
homophone: (cot–caught merger) ball
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /bawl/
Forms: form: bowls
Etymology: From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.
Senses: glosses: A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
examples: text: You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
synonyms: bowlful
glosses: As much as is held by a bowl.
examples: text: This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
text: poke bowl
text: Fresh ingredients are more expensive than highly processed ones and the result is grain bowls galore for those who can spend $10 or more per meal, and fast food full of salt, fat and sugar for everyone else.
ref: 2021 October 23, Jane Black, “The Amazon of Quinoa Bowls”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
synonyms: bowl cut
pudding bowl
glosses: A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
examples: text: Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
glosses: The round hollow part of anything.
glosses: The round hollow part of anything.
The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
examples: text: 195. Old German Pipe-Bowl ; carved wood ; design in front of bowl – the letters P K K surrounded by a wreath ; lid wanting. Switzerland.
ref: 1882, Edwin Atlee Barber, Catalogue of the Collection of Tobacco Pipes Deposited by Edwin A. Barber, page 11:
glosses: The round hollow part of anything.
Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
examples: text: Let's smoke a bowl!
text: Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
ref: 2010, Mark Arax, West of the West, page 221:
glosses: The round hollow part of anything.
The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The round hollow part of anything.
A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: crater
hollow
glosses: A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
theater
glosses: An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
Derived terms: begging bowl
bowl barrow
bowl chair
bowl cut
bowl game
bowl haircut
bowl hat
bowllike
bowl lute
bowlmaker
bowlmaking
bowl of cherries
bowl pack
bowl-shaped
bowl wax
brandy bowl
bread bowl
Buddha bowl
burrito bowl
clean bowl
coffee bowl
doggy dinner bowl look
dustbowl
embowl
finger bowl
fishbowl
fish bowl
food bowl
fruit bowl
goldfish bowl
iron rice bowl
lawn-bowl
lawn bowl
mazer bowl
mixing bowl
nutbowlpunchbowl
pipe-bowl
poké bowl
pudding-bowl
pudding bowl
punch bowl
punch bowl waterfall
quiz bowl
rice bowl
rosebowl
salad bowl
scorpion bowl
shampoo bowl
shit-bowl
shit bowl
singing bowl
slop bowl
slop-bowl
sound bowl
soup bowl
spaghetti bowl
spaghetti bowl effect
spoon bowl
spoon-bowl
sugar bowl
swill-bowl
take the browns to the super bowl
tea bowl
teabowl
toilet bowl
track and bowl system
volcano bowl
washbowl
work bowl
Zuni bowl