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bonne bouche

bonne bouche noun: a gourmet titbit.

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
    • Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378
  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

bonne bouche meaning in Tamil

bonne bouche in Tamil

நறுஞ்சுவைத்துணுக்கு

Forms of bonne bouche

pluralbonnes bouches
alternative formbonne-bouche

Origin of bonne bouche

Coined in English from French bonne bouche (“agreeable taste”, literally “good mouth(ful)”).

Questions about bonne bouche

What does bonne bouche mean?
Bonne bouche means a gourmet titbit.
What is bonne bouche in Tamil?
Bonne bouche in Tamil is நறுஞ்சுவைத்துணுக்கு. See Bonne bouche meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bonne bouche?
Bonne bouche is a noun.
What is the plural of bonne bouche?
The plural of bonne bouche is bonnes bouches.

Words near bonne bouche in the dictionary

  1. bonnags
  2. Bonnardian
  3. Bonnaz
  4. Bonndorf im Schwarzwald
  5. bonne
  6. bonne bouche
  7. Bonne projection
  8. Bonne projections
  9. Bonne Terre
  10. bonne-bouche
  11. Bonneau

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