Alteration ofbouche.
bouge (uncountable)
- (now historical) The right torations atcourt, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
2011, Thomas Penn,Winter King, Penguin, published2012, page29:Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks[…]
Variant ofbulge.
bouge (third-person singular simple presentbouges,present participlebouging,simple past and past participlebouged)
- To swell out.
- Tobilge.
1589,Richard Hakluyt,The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies toChristopher Barker, […],→OCLC:Their shippebouged.
Inherited fromOld Frenchbouge,bolge(“sack, purse”), probably borrowed fromLate Latinbulga, fromGaulishbolgā(“bag, sack”).
bouge m (pluralbouges)
- hovel;dive
- bulge,protuberance
- bouge d’un mur ―bulge in a wall?
- bouge de tonneau ―bulge in a barrel?
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
bouge
- inflection ofbouger:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
Probably a borrowing fromLatinbulga, itself fromGaulishbolgā(“bag, sack”).
bougeoblique singular, m (oblique pluralbouges,nominative singularbouges,nominative pluralbouge)
- sack;purse; small bag
- Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIXe auXVe siècle (1881) (bouge)
