bouc
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French bouc (“male goat”), from Old French buc (“male goat”), from Latin buccus, perhaps from the confluence of Frankish *bukk (“male goat”)[1] (compare Old Dutch buck (“male goat”)), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“male goat”), and Gaulish *bukkos (“male goat”)[2] (compare Middle Breton bouch (“goat”), Old Cornish boch (“goat”), Old Irish boc (“buck”)), from Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”), both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“goat, buck, ram”). More at buck.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bouc m (plural boucs, feminine chèvre)
- billy goat
- 1845, Hans Christian Andersen, La Bergère et le Ramoneur:
- Au milieu de l’armoire on voyait sculpté un homme d’une singulière apparence : il ricanait toujours, car on ne pouvait pas dire qu’il riait. Il avait des jambes de bouc, de petites cornes à la tête et une longue barbe. Les enfants l’appelaient le Grand-général-commandant-en-chef-Jambe-de-Bouc, nom qui peut paraître long et difficile, mais titre dont peu de personnes ont été honorées jusqu’à présent.
- In the middle of the wardrobe was a sculpture of a man with a peculiar appearance. He was always sneering – you couldn't call it laughing. He had the legs of a goat, little horns on his head and a long beard. The children called him Grand-General-Commander-in-Chief-Goat-Legs. The name may seem long and difficult, but very few people have been honoured with that title until now.
- goatee
- Synonym: barbiche f
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bouc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle Dutch
[edit]Noun
[edit]bouc
- Alternative spelling of boec
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French buc, boc; see above.
Noun
[edit]bouc m (plural boucs)
- male goat
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