bogue
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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.[1]
Noun edit
bogue (plural bogues)
- A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
Translations edit
Boops boops
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Etymology 2 edit
From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”). Doublet of bayou.
Noun edit
bogue (plural bogues)
- (especially Southern US, Midland US) A bayou or waterway.
Translations edit
bayou — see bayou
Etymology 3 edit
Related to Spanish bogar (“to row”), Old French voguer (“to sway, move along”).
Verb edit
bogue (third-person singular simple present bogues, present participle boguing, simple past and past participle bogued)
- (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.
References edit
- “bogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ 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 edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Originally from a western dialect, possibly from Breton bolc'h (“chestnut burr, flaxseed husk”).
Noun edit
bogue f (plural bogues)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bogue f (plural bogues)
- a species of ray-finned fish, Leporinus obtusidens
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
bogue f (plural bogues)
Etymology 4 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bogue m (plural bogues)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bogue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Verb edit
bogue
- inflection of bogar: