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English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
boun (comparative more boun, superlative most boun)
- (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
Verb
boun (third-person singular simple present bouns, present participle bouning, simple past and past participle bouned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.
1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: or Archibald Constable and Co. ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., , →OCLC:From Cheviot to the shores of Ross,
From Solway-Sands to Marshal's - Moss,
All bouned them for the fight
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”). Forms with /oː/ are from Old East Norse *bóinn.
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Pronunciation
Adjective
boun
- Ready, prepared, organised:
c. 1375, “Book XI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 37, verso, lines 69-73; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:To ϸis ϸai all aſſentyt ar / And bad ϸ[air] men all mak ϸai[m] ȝar / For to be boune agayne ϸ[at] day / On ϸe beſt wiß ϸ[at] eu[ir] ϸai may- To this they'd all assented, / and made their men make themselves ready / to be prepared again that day / in the best way that they're able to.
- Motivated, raring, eager.
- Loyal, subservient, compliant.
- Bound, going or ready to go.
- (rare) On the brink of; about to.
- (rare) Close by, adjacent.
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Etymology 2
Verb
boun
- Alternative form of bounen
Scots
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“prepare”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
boun (comparative mair boun, superlative maist boun)
- ready, prepared
- Therefore ever thou mak thee boun / To obey, and thank thy God of all. — Robert Henryson, ‘The Abbey Walk’