bogue

• IPA^(key): /boʊɡ/

Related to Spanish boga (“a ray-finned fish”) Leporinus obtusidens, from Late Latin bōca, bōx; Box vulgaris is an older name for Boops boops. Compare also the obsolete term boce for this or another kind of fish.^[1]

bogue (plural bogues)

1. A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).

From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”). Doublet of bayou.

bogue (plural bogues)

1. (especially Southern US, Midland US) A bayou or waterway.

Related to Spanish bogar (“to row”), Old French voguer (“to sway, move along”).

bogue (third-person singular simple present bogues, present participle boguing, simple past and past participle bogued)

1. (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.

• “bogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• bouge

• IPA^(key): /bɔɡ/

Originally from a western dialect, possibly from Breton bolc'h (“chestnut burr, flaxseed husk”).

bogue f (plural bogues)

1. chestnut burr

From Latin bōca.

bogue f (plural bogues)

1. a species of ray-finned fish, Leporinus obtusidens

From Italian boga.

bogue f (plural bogues)

1. boxfish

Borrowed from English bug.

• bug

bogue m (plural bogues)

1. (computing) bug

• déboguer

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

• bouge, bougé

bogue

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