bouche
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buːʃ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1
From French bouche (“mouth, victuals”). Doublet of bocca.
Alternative forms
- bouch
Noun
bouche (plural bouches)
- (obsolete) An allowance of food and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
Verb
bouche (third-person singular simple present bouches, present participle bouching, simple past and past participle bouched)
- Alternative form of bush (to line)
Noun
bouche (plural bouches)
- Alternative form of bush (a lining)
See also
- à bouche
- bonne bouche
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buʃ/
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Etymology 1
From Middle French bouche, from Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca. Doublet of bouque.
Noun
bouche f (plural bouches)
- mouth
- Synonyms: (vulgar) gueule; (informal) clapet
Derived terms
- à bouche que veux-tu
- amuse-bouche
- arracher les mots de la bouche
- bain de bouche
- bouche à feu
- bouche à incendie
- bouche à oreille
- bouche à pipe
- bouche à pipes
- bouche bée
- bouche d'égout
- bouche d'incendie
- boucher
- de bouche
- embouchure
- faire la fine bouche
- métier de bouche
- mettre l'eau à la bouche
- mise en bouche
- motus et bouche cousue
- né avec une cuillère d'argent dans la bouche
- né avec une cuillère en argent dans la bouche
- tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche
- tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche
Verb
bouche
- inflection of boucher:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “bouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca.
Noun
bouche f (plural bouches)
- mouth
Descendants
- French: bouche