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verb
Bouge  v. t.  (past & past part. gouged; pres. part. gouging)  
1.
To scoop out with a gouge.
2.
To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. (K S.) Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
3.
To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. (Slang, U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bouge" Quotes from Famous Books



... parish priest of Roselies; Labeye, parish priest of Blegny-Trembleur; Thielen, parish priest of Haccourt; Janssen, parish priest of Heure le Romain; Chabot, parish priest of Foret; Dossogne, parish priest of Hockay; Reusonnet, curate of Olme; Bilande, chaplain of the Institute of Deaf Mutes at Bouge; ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

... cameo; bassorilievo[obs3], mezzorilevo[obs3], altorivievo; low relief, bas relief[Fr], high relief. hill &c. (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland[obs3]; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze[obs3], ness. V. be prominent &c. adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge|[Fr], 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 &c. adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase. [become convex] belly out. Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, ...
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