BOWELS
ADJECTIVES
1530 • BOUND confined in the bowels, costive
1565 • LOOSE-BELLIED having the bowels relaxed → obs.
1597 • SLIPPERY of the bowels: lax, loose → obs.
1684 • CACATORY attended with looseness of the bowels → obs.
1904 • SCOUR relaxed as to the bowels → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1944 • STERKY having loose bowels from fear → Aust. sl.
NOUNS
1000 • THARMS bowels, entrails, viscera → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1398 • HURLING grumbling or rumbling of the bowels → obs.
1400 • GURGULATION rumbling in the bowels → obs.
1495 • CURLING a rumbling in the bowels → obs.
1505 • TRIPE the intestines, bowels, guts, as members of the body
1525 • PUDDINGS the bowels, entrails, or guts of a person or animal → arch.
1597 • BELLY-GRINDING pain in the bowels, colic
1600 • FRET pain in the bowels, colic → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1607 • WRENCHING a griping pain in the bowels → obs.
1612 • REDELIVERAGE evacuation of the bowels → obs.
1619 • CHITTERLINGS the human bowels → colloq.
………. • DUNG GATES the bowels; the buttocks → obs.
1689 • LURRY looseness of the bowels → obs.
..20C • CHITLINGS the human bowels → US jocular usage
VERBS
1390 • GROWL of the bowels: to grumble → obs.
1519 • CROWL to rumble or make a sound in the stomach and bowels → obs.
1547 • CROAK of the stomach or bowels: to make a rumbling noise → obs.