bouge

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See also: bougé

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alteration of bouche.

Noun

bouge (uncountable)

  1. (now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
    • 1612, Ben Jonson, Love Restored:
      They […] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 29:
      Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks […]

Etymology 2

Variant of bulge.

Verb

bouge (third-person singular simple present bouges, present participle bouging, simple past and past participle bouged)

  1. To swell out.
  2. To bilge.
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, , London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, , →OCLC:
      Their shippe bouged.

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French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French bouge, bolge (“sack, purse”), probably borrowed from Late Latin bulga, from Gaulish bolgā (“bag, sack”).

Noun

bouge m (plural bouges)

  1. hovel; dive
  2. bulge, protuberance
    bouge d’un mur ― bulge in a wall?
    bouge de tonneau ― bulge in a barrel?
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bouge

  1. inflection of bouger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably a borrowing from Latin bulga, itself from Gaulish bolgā (“bag, sack”).

Noun

bouge oblique singular, m (oblique plural bouges, nominative singular bouges, nominative plural bouge)

  1. sack; purse; small bag

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bouge)
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