One of the long tubes in the body that food passes through after the stomach; often used in the plural as “bowels.”
From Middle English “bowel,” from Old French “boel,” from Latin “botellus,” meaning “small sausage or intestine.” The shape of intestines reminded people of stuffed sausages.
The word for your intestines literally comes from “little sausage,” which is exactly what they look like curled up. Old languages didn’t shy away from gross comparisons when naming body parts.
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