bogue

See also: Bogue and bogué

English

the bogue (Boops boops)

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bogue (plural bogues)

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

Translations

Boops boops

• Catalan: boga (ca), bogarró (ca)
• Danish: okseøjefisk c
• Dutch: bokvis (nl) m
• Estonian: suursilm-kuldvöötahven
• Finnish: boga (fi)
• French: bogue (fr) f, boga (fr)
• Galician: boga f
• German: Gelbstriemenbrasse f
• Greek: γόπα (el) f (gópa)

  Ancient: βῶξ (bôx)

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• Kabuverdianu: bóga
• Latin: bōx m
• Romanian: gupă f
• Russian: бопс (bops), полосатик (ru) (polosatik)
• Sicilian: balaijola, uoppa
• Spanish: boga (es) f
• Swedish: oxögonfisk c
• Venetian: bobba

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

Etymology 3

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• bouge

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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,

Etymology 3

From Italian boga.

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

1. boxfish

Etymology 4

From English bug.

Alternative forms

• bug

Noun

bogue m (plural bogues)

1. (computing) bug

Derived terms

• déboguer

Anagrams

• bouge, bougé

Further reading

• “bogue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Verb

bogue

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