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ouches

ouches is the plural of ouche.

Meaning of ouche

Noun

ouche (plural ouches)

  1. (historical, poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when set with jewels or valuable.
    • My huſbonde had a legende of his lyfe^([sic – meaning wyfe?]) / Eriphilem that for an ouche of golde / Hath preuely vnto the grekes tolde / Where that hir huſbonde hyd him in a place / For which he had at Thebes ſory grace.[1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English), [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne]...

Proper noun capitalized: Ouches

Ouches

  1. (plural) plural of Ouch

Questions about ouches

What is ouches the plural of?
Ouches is the plural of ouche.
What part of speech is ouches?
Ouches is a proper noun.

Words near ouches in the dictionary

  1. ouboets
  2. OUCA
  3. ouch
  4. ouche
  5. ouched
  6. ouches
  7. Ouchi
  8. ouchie
  9. ouchies
  10. ouching
  11. Ouchis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ouches (page history and authors); Ouches (page history and authors); ouche (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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