bouge Meaning, Definition & Usage

Bouge intransitive verb
Etymology
Variant of bulge. Cf. Bowge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bouged
Definitions
  1. To swell out. Obs.
  2. To bilge. Obs. "Their ship bouged." Hakluyt.
Bouge transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To stave in; to bilge. Obs. Holland.
Bouge noun
Etymology
F. bouche mouth, victuals.
Definitions
  1. Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. Obs.
    [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson
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Bouge transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Gouged ; present participle & verbal noun Gouging
Definitions
  1. To scoop out with a gouge.
  2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. K S. ✍ A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
  3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. Slang, U. S.

Webster 1913