See also: bougé

English edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Alteration of bouche.

Noun edit

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 edit

Variant of bulge.

Verb edit

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 edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

bouge m (plural bouges)

  1. hovel; dive
  2. bulge, protuberance
    bouge d’un murbulge in a wall?
    bouge de tonneaubulge in a barrel?
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

bouge

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

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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

  1. sack; purse; small bag

Derived terms edit

  • bougette
    • French: bougette
    • Middle English: bogett, bouget, bowgette

Descendants edit

References edit

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