boche

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See also: Boche, bóche, bóchē, and bočhe

English

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Noun

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boche (plural boches)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Boche.
    • 1916, Herbert Wes McBride, The Emma Gees[1]:
      Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him.
    • 1920, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1920[2]:
      But Jacques went right on, talking, talking--about the right flank and the left flank and the boches and the Americans.
    • 1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings[3]:
      I tell you he's the stuff that will take 'em over the top and make the boches feel cold in the pit of their fat tumtums when they see him coming.

Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin bucca.

Noun

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boche f (plural boches) (ORB, broad)

  1. mouth

References

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  • bouche in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • boche in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

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Etymology

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Either directly from tête de boche (stubbornhead), perhaps derived from caboche (head); or shortened from alboche, an alternation of allemand (German) influenced by tête de boche or the element -boche in rigolboche (funny dance), the latter perhaps ultimately from bamboche (large marionette).

Alternatively, from the German family name Bosch.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boche m or f by sense (plural boches) (often capitalized)

  1. (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) Boche, Kraut, German
    Synonyms: chleuh, schleu, fritz

Further reading

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Galician

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Etymology

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Compare bocha.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boche m (plural boches)

  1. lung
    Synonyms: bofe, livián, pulmón
  2. sausage made with pork lungs

References

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈbutʃə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈbuʃə/

Noun

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boche oblique singularf (oblique plural boches, nominative singular boche, nominative plural boches)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Descendants

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  • Middle French: bouche
  • Norman: bouoche
  • Walloon: boutche

Sardinian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boche f (plural boches)

  1. (Nuorese) voice

Spanish

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Verb

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boche

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