disembogue

English

WOTD – 20 August 2012

Etymology

From Spanish desembocar, from des- + embocar (“run into a creek or strait”), from boca (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbəʊɡ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈboʊɡ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -əʊɡ

Verb

disembogue (third-person singular simple present disembogues, present participle disemboguing, simple past and past participle disembogued)

To come out into the open sea from a river etc.
The ships disembogued from the harbour.
- 1612-1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, act II, scene i, lines 36–38:
  No, no, but you call careening of an old morphewed lady to make her disembogue again – there's roughcast phrase to your plastic.
(of a river or waters) To pour out, to debouch; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space.
- c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto:
  You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.
  A figurative use.
- 1828, Walter Hamilton, “Mooltan”, in The East-India Gazetteer, 2nd edition, volume II, page 240:
  The river of Behut, near the pergunnah of Shoor, unites with the Chinaub, and then after running twenty-seven coss, they disembogue themselves into the river Sinde, near Ooch.
- 1832 June, Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 36:
  Keängsoo is easy of approach : but though the two largest rivers of China, the Yellow river, and the Yangtsze keäng, both disembogue themselves into the sea within its confines, yet it possesses but one good port, which is Shanghae heën, near the frontiers of Chekeäng.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 99:
  ‘Oh piffle, Durfeys – it flows to the westward and disembogues along the Pepper Coast.’

Synonyms

(come out into the open sea): debouch
(pour out): debouch

Derived terms

disemboguement

Translations

to come out into the open sea from a river

(of a river or waters) to pour out, to debouch

Bulgarian: вливам се (vlivam se)
German: münden (de)