A Scottish and Northern English word for the belly or stomach; informal for a person's body or frame.
From Middle Low German 'bauch' or Old High German 'bauh,' related to modern German 'Bauch.' It entered Northern English through Scandinavian and Germanic contact in medieval times.
Regional words for body parts reveal medieval trade routes—'bauch' spread through Scottish and English ports because trading communities needed colloquial body language, and these informal words stuck around as linguistic souvenirs of commerce.
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