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bouge

/buːd͡ʒ/

bouge noun: the right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.

Noun

bouge (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
    • They […] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady.1612, Ben Jonson, Love Restored
    • Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks […]2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 29

Verb

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

  1. To swell out.
  2. To bilge.
    • Their shippe bouged.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Forms of bouge

third-person singular presentbouges
present participlebouging
past participlebouged
pastbouged

Origin of bouge

Alteration of bouche.

Variant of bulge.

Words that rhyme with bouge

Questions about bouge

What does bouge mean?
Bouge means the right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
What part of speech is bouge?
Bouge can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce bouge?
Bouge is pronounced /buːd͡ʒ/.

Words near bouge in the dictionary

  1. bougar-stakes
  2. bougar-stick
  3. bougar-sticks
  4. bougars
  5. bougatsa
  6. bouge
  7. bouged
  8. bougee
  9. bougees
  10. bouges
  11. bouget

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