bouget

English edit

Arms depicting two blue bougets.

Etymology edit

The heraldic sense derives from an older spelling and meaning of budget, "small bag" (compare Middle English bouget, bowgett (“a leather bag or wallet”)), from Middle French bougette (“little pouch”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈbuːdʒɪt/, /ˈbuːdʒɛt/, /ˈbuːɡɛt/

Noun edit

bouget (plural bougets)

Obsolete form of budget (“purse, bag; etc”).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550:
  With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
  Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
(heraldry) A charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.
Synonym: water-bouget

Alternative forms edit

bowget

References edit

“bouget”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
“bouget”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“bouget”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“bouget”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams edit

outbeg