bogue

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See also: Bogue and bogué

English

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the bogue (Boops boops)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Related to Spanish boga (“a ray-finned fish”) Leporinus obtusidens, from Late Latin bōca, bōx; Box vulgaris is an older name for Boops boops. Compare also the obsolete term boce for this or another kind of fish.

Noun

bogue (plural bogues)

  1. A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
Translations

Etymology 2

From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”). Doublet of bayou.

Noun

bogue (plural bogues)

  1. (especially Southern US, Midland US) A bayou or waterway.
Translations
bayou — see bayou

Etymology 3

Related to Spanish bogar (“to row”), Old French voguer (“to sway, move along”).

Verb

bogue (third-person singular simple present bogues, present participle boguing, simple past and past participle bogued)

  1. (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.

References

  1. ^ mentioned in dictionaries since at least the 1600s, e.g. Francis Gouldman (1664) A copious dictionary in three parts: “Boces Small fishes so called. Leucomanides.”

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Originally from a western dialect, possibly from Breton bolc'h (“chestnut burr, flaxseed husk”).

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

  1. chestnut burr

Etymology 2

From Latin bōca.

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

  1. a species of ray-finned fish, Leporinus obtusidens

Etymology 3

From Italian boga.

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

  1. boxfish

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English bug.

Alternative forms

Noun

bogue m (plural bogues)

  1. (computing) bug
Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

bogue

  1. inflection of bogar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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