bouche

See also: Bouche, bouché, and Bouché

English

Etymology 1

From French bouche (“mouth, victuals”). Doublet of bocca.

Alternative forms

• bouch

Noun

bouche (plural bouches)

1. (obsolete) An allowance of food and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

Etymology 2

Verb

bouche (third-person singular simple present bouches, present participle bouching, simple past and past participle bouched)

1. Alternative form of bush (to line)

Noun

bouche (plural bouches)

1. Alternative form of bush (a lining)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “bouche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From Middle French bouche, from Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca. Doublet of bouque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʃ/

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Noun

bouche f (plural bouches)

1. mouth

Synonyms

• gueule (vulgar)
• clapet (informal)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• à bouche que veux-tu
• amuse-bouche
• bouche à oreille

• boucher
• embouchure

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca.

Noun

bouche f (plural bouches)

1. mouth

Descendants

• French: bouche