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bouging

bouging is the present participle and gerund of bouge.

Meaning of bouge

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

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Questions about bouging

What is bouging the present participle and gerund of?
Bouging is the present participle and gerund of bouge.

Words near bouging in the dictionary

  1. bougier
  2. bougies
  3. bougiest
  4. bouginage
  5. bouginages
  6. bouging
  7. bougna
  8. bougonia
  9. Bouguer's halo
  10. Bouguer's law
  11. Bouie

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