bogue
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Related to Spanish boga (“a ray-finned fish”) Leporinus obtusidens, from Late Latin bōca, bōx; Box vulgaris is an older name for Boops boops. Compare also the obsolete term boce for this or another kind of fish.[1]
Noun
[edit]bogue (plural bogues)
- A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
Translations
[edit]Boops boops
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”). Doublet of bayou.
Noun
[edit]bogue (plural bogues)
- (especially Southern US, Midland US) A bayou or waterway.
Translations
[edit]bayou — see bayou
Etymology 3
[edit]Related to Spanish bogar (“to row”), Old French voguer (“to sway, move along”).
Verb
[edit]bogue (third-person singular simple present bogues, present participle boguing, simple past and past participle bogued)
- (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.
References
[edit]- “bogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ mentioned in dictionaries since at least the 1600s, e.g. Francis Gouldman (1664) A copious dictionary in three parts: “Boces Small fishes so called. Leucomanides.”
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Originally from a western dialect, possibly from Breton bolc'h (“chestnut burr, flaxseed husk”).
Noun
[edit]bogue f (plural bogues)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bogue f (plural bogues)
- a species of ray-finned fish, Leporinus obtusidens
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]bogue f (plural bogues)
Etymology 4
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]bogue m (plural bogues)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bogue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]bogue
- inflection of bogar:
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