bouge
See also: bougé
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAlteration of bouche.
Noun
editbouge (uncountable)
- (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
editVariant of bulge.
Verb
editbouge (third-person singular simple present bouges, present participle bouging, simple past and past participle bouged)
- To swell out.
- 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
editFrench
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old French bouge, bolge (“sack, purse”), probably borrowed from Late Latin bulga, from Gaulish bolgā (“bag, sack”).
Noun
editbouge m (plural bouges)
- hovel; dive
- bulge, protuberance
- bouge d’un mur ― bulge in a wall?
- bouge de tonneau ― bulge in a barrel?
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editbouge
- inflection of bouger:
Further reading
edit- “bouge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editOld French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editProbably a borrowing from Latin bulga, itself from Gaulish bolgā (“bag, sack”).
Noun
editbouge oblique singular, m (oblique plural bouges, nominative singular bouges, nominative plural bouge)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- French: bouge
- →? Italian: bolgia
- → Middle English: bulge, boulge
- English: bulge
- → Middle English: bouge
- English: budge
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bouge)
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