boche

See also Boche

English

Noun

boche (plural boches)

1. Alternative form of Boche.
   • 1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings^[1]:

     I tell you he's the stuff that will take 'em over the top and make the boches feel cold in the pit of their fat tumtums when they see him coming.

   • 1920, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1920^[2]:

     But Jacques went right on, talking, talking--about the right flank and the left flank and the boches and the Americans.

   • 1916, Herbert Wes McBride, The Emma Gees^[3]:

     Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him.

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French

Noun

boche m and f (plural boches) (often capitalized)

1. (pejorative) Boche (German)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• bocce
• boce
• bouche
• buche

Etymology

Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔt.ʃə/

Noun

boche f (oblique plural boches, nominative singular boche, nominative plural boches)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Descendants

• French: bouche