bouchon

From French bouchon.

bouchon

1. cork; lid; bottle cap

From Middle French bouchon (“bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum”), from bousche (“handful of straw, bundle of twigs”), from Vulgar Latin bosca (“brush, bundle of branches”), from Frankish *bosc (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”). More at bush.

• IPA^(key): /bu.ʃɔ̃/

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bouchon m (plural bouchons)

1. cork, bung, stopper, plug
2. float (in angling)
3. traffic jam
4. (computing) dongle
5. (small) restaurant
6. (colloquial) kid, mite, munchkin

• (traffic jam): embouteillage

• bouchonner
• tire-bouchon

• “bouchon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

bouchon m (plural bouchons)

1. bundle
2. cork; stopper (for a bottle)

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