bolus

From Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”), plural bōlī, from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod, lump”).

• Rhymes: -əʊləs

bolus (plural boli or boluses)

1. A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
2. A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     I gave him a bolus, twice the size of a gooseberry.

• Boli is the somewhat more common plural form of bolus in scholarly use.

bolus (third-person singular simple present boluses, present participle bolusing, simple past and past participle bolused)

1. (intransitive) To take a dose of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes.

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• Loubs, bouls, lobus

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.lʏs/
• Hyphenation: bo‧lus

Generally regarded as borrowed from Yiddish [Term?], from Ladino [Term?], from Spanish bollo or bola.

bolus m (plural bolussen, diminutive bolusje n)

1. A sweet, soft pastry containing cinnamon from Zeeland, originating from European Jewish cuisine.
2. (colloquial, Netherlands, by extension) A turd, a pat.

• bole (dated)

Borrowed from Latin bōlus, from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos).

bolus m or f (plural bolussen)

1. A type of fat clay.

   Synonym: bool

• zegelaarde

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolus/

bolus

1. conditional of boli