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Definition of Bouge
1. v. i. To swell out.
2. v. t. To stave in; to bilge.
3. n. Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.
Definition of Bouge
1. to budge [v BOUGED, BOUGING, BOUGES] - See also: budge
Medical Definition of Bouge
1. Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. " [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . With fasting." (B. Jonson). Origin: F. Bouche mouth, victuals. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bouge
Literary usage of Bouge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"(sv Budge (1)). bouge, to ' bilge', to stave in a ship's side ; intr., to suffer
fracture, as a ship. ' My barke was boug'd', Mirror for Mag., Carassus, st. ..."
2. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"Annales des Voyages, xxii., 1813, p. 309. Voyage sur la Mer bouge, et dans l'Arabie.
See BURCKHARDT (JL). ..."
3. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"The answer is this opening to his poem of the ' bouge of Court/ and the impression
inevitable, of the serious sense of beauty and harmony to which it gives ..."
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