bouge

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bouge, v. i. [Variant of bulge. Cf. Bowge.].

To swell out. [1913 Webster]
To bilge. Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]

bouge, v. t.

To stave in; to bilge. Holland. [1913 Webster]

bouge, n. [F. bouche mouth, victuals.].

Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [1913 Webster]

" [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting." [1913 Webster]

bouge, v. t.

To scoop out with a gouge. [1913 Webster]
To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [1913 Webster]
" A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States." [1913 Webster]
To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [1913 Webster]

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ROGET THESAURUS

bouge

Convexity

VB be prominent, project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch, jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out, stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up, swell over, hang over, bend over, beetle, render prominent, raise, emboss, chase, belly out.