bouchon
Antillean Creole Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
bouchon
French Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Middle French bouchon (“bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum”), from bousche (“handful of straw, bundle of twigs”), from Vulgar Latin bosca (“brush, bundle of branches”), from Frankish *bosc (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”). More at bush.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bouchon m (plural bouchons)
- cork, bung, stopper, plug
- float (in angling)
- traffic jam
- Synonym: embouteillage
- (computing) dongle
- (small) restaurant
- (colloquial) kid, mite, munchkin
Derived terms Edit
- bouchon d’oreille (“earplug”)
- bouchonner
- pousser le bouchon
- tire-bouchon
Descendants Edit
Further reading Edit
- “bouchon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French Edit
Noun Edit
bouchon m (plural bouchons)
References Edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bouchon, supplement)