bogue

See also: Bogue and bogué

English
the bogue (Boops boops)

Etymology 1

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Noun

bogue (plural bogues)

  1. A species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic, Boops boops.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”). Doublet of bayou.

Noun

bogue (plural bogues)

  1. A bayou or waterway.
Translations
bayou — see bayou

Verb

bogue (third-person singular simple present bogues, present participle boguing, simple past and past participle bogued)

  1. (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bogue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɔɡ/

Etymology 1

Originally from a western dialect, possibly from Breton bolc'h (“chestnut burr, flaxseed husk”).

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

  1. chestnut burr

Etymology 2

From Latin bōca.

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

  1. a species of ray-finned fish, Leporinus obtusidens

Etymology 3

From Italian boga.

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

  1. boxfish

Etymology 4

From English bug.

Alternative forms

Noun

bogue m (plural bogues)

  1. (computing) bug
Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

bogue

  1. inflection of bogar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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