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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bowel.
  • adjective Having bowels; hollow.

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Examples

  • They're the ones who burned through tonnes of pot and then launched a War on Drugs when they grew bored with it; they drove mighty-bowelled Mustangs and Thunderbirds in their youth, and only started worrying about the environment when they no longer needed a capacious backseat to fornicate in; they espoused and took full advantage of sexual liberation, but were safely hors de combat by the time AIDS reared its head.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • The old boy you see on the next train to Brighton – squashed between a loose-bowelled toddler and a teen playing Kings of Leon at top volume – could well be Lord Justice Judge.

    Train travel: First among equals Peter Preston 2010

  • As if the tone and the words could somehow make a difference to the walking lightly and the loose-bowelled fear.

    With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005

  • Seven years old, spoiled, garrulous, and loose-bowelled he might be, but he could wear my colours in the National any day.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered.

    Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

  • Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry, and so about the most of their joints and neck they hang bracelets, or chains of copper, pearl, and such like, as they used to wear.

    An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884

  • Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry, and so about the most of their ioynts and necke they hang bracelets, or chaines of copper, pearle, and such like, as they use to wear.

    A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884

  • "Yes; and to think of crushing such a deep-bowelled monster!" said

    Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • La Balue rose; the others, from honour, esteem, and reverence of the church, gave way to the clergy, and, biding their time, they continued to make grimaces, at which the king laughed to himself with Nicole, who aided him to stop the respiration of these loose-bowelled gentlemen.

    Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • La Balue rose; the others, from honour, esteem, and reverence of the church, gave way to the clergy, and, biding their time, they continued to make grimaces, at which the king laughed to himself with Nicole, who aided him to stop the respiration of these loose-bowelled gentlemen.

    Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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