bouge

Alteration of bouche.

bouge (uncountable)

1. (now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
   • Ben Jonson

     They […] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p, 29:

     Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks […]

Variant of bulge.

bouge (third-person singular simple present bouges, present participle bouging, simple past and past participle bouged)

1. To swell out.
2. To bilge.
   • Hakluyt

     Their ship bouged.

• Bogue, bogue

• IPA^(key): /buʒ/

From Old French bouge, bolge, probably borrowed from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

bouge m (plural bouges)

1. hovel; dive
2. bulge, protuberance

• bouge de tonneau
• bouge d'un mur
• bougette

Inflected forms.

bouge

1. first-person singular present indicative of bouger
2. third-person singular present indicative of bouger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bouger
5. second-person singular imperative of bouger

• bogue

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

• bolge

From Late Latin bulga, probably a borrowing. Ultimately of Gaulish origin.

bouge m (oblique plural bouges, nominative singular bouges, nominative plural bouge)

1. sack; purse; small bag

• French: bouge

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