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BOUK
Definition of BOUK
noun
The belly.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of bucket. Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål buk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). For the phonetic development, compare puck, suck.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOUK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
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Built from these letters
BOUK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read BKOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
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OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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