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bonne-bouche

bonne-bouche is the alternative spelling of bonne bouche.

Meaning of bonne bouche

Noun

bonne bouche (plural bonnes bouches)

  1. A gourmet titbit.
    • It is a melancholy truth that this same New York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished, and praiseworthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings ; for which we are very...1807 April 18, Washington Irving, “To Correspondents”, in Salmagundi, G. P. Putnam's sons, New York, pages 183–184
  2. (euphemistic) The vagina.
    • I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.1941, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 27

Forms of bonne-bouche

pluralbonnes-bouches

Questions about bonne-bouche

What is bonne-bouche the alternative spelling of?
Bonne-bouche is the alternative spelling of bonne bouche.

Words near bonne-bouche in the dictionary

  1. bonne
  2. bonne bouche
  3. Bonne projection
  4. Bonne projections
  5. Bonne Terre
  6. bonne-bouche
  7. Bonneau
  8. Bonneaus
  9. Bonnechere
  10. Bonnechere Valley
  11. Bonnell

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