bogue
English
Translations
Etymology 2
From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”).
Translations
bayou — see bayou
Verb
bogue (third-person singular simple present bogues, present participle boguing, simple past and past participle bogued)
- (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bogue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔɡ/
Etymology 1
Originally from a western dialect, possibly from Breton bolc'h ‘chestnut bur, flaxseed husk’.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bogue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Verb
bogue
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