bouge

See also: bougé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -uːdʒ

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.

Anagrams

• Bogue, bogue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʒ/

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

• bougette

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

• “bouge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bogue

Old French

Alternative forms

• bolge, boulge

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

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

Descendants

• French: bouge
• →? Italian: bolgia
• → Middle English: bulge, boulge
  • English: bulge
• → Middle English: bouge
  • English: budge

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bouge)