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Definition: BOUGE |
BOUGEIntransitive verb1. To bilge. 2. To swell out. Noun1. Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. Transitive verb1. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. 2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. 3. To scoop out with a gouge. 4. To stave in; to bilge. |
Date "BOUGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Verb: be prominent; Adjective: project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BOUGE |
| English words defined with "BOUGE": Bouged, Bowge ♦ Gouged, Gouging. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BOUGE": Budget. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BOUGE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (budges, hole). |
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Movie/TV Titles | L' Attrait du bouge (1912) Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001) Ça bouge (1995) | |
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| "BOUGE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BOUGE" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bouge paris | 6 |
bouge inlet pier | 5 |
bouge | 4 |
bouge inlet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-o-u" | |
-2 letters: beg, bog, bug, ego, gob, obe. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, go, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-o-u" | |
+1 letter: bougie, brogue, outbeg. | |
+2 letters: boughed, bougies, brogues, buoyage, burgeon, globule, lovebug, outbegs. | |
+3 letters: baghouse, berouged, besought, bludgeon, boughten, bourgeon, broguery, bughouse, bunghole, buoyages, burgeons, burgonet, globules, lovebugs, rebought. | |
+4 letters: baghouses, befouling, beglamour, bethought, biogenous, bludgeons, bourgeois, bourgeons, bughouses, buglosses, bungholes, burgeoned, burgonets, doodlebug, groupable, guidebook, neighbour, objurgate, outbegged, subregion, subrogate. | |
+5 letters: beclouding, beglamours, bescouring, beshouting, bespousing, bigmouthed, bludgeoned, bluetongue, bourgeoise, bourgeoned, brogueries, bulldogged, bulldogger, bunglesome, burgeoning, coagulable, debouching, disembogue, doodlebugs, euglobulin, guidebooks, neighbours, objurgated, objurgates, outbeaming, outbegging, outbragged, overbought, overbuying, rebounding, redoubling, seaborgium, subcollege, subregions, subrogated, subrogates, umbrageous, unbecoming, youngberry. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4F 55 47 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- ..- --. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001111 01010101 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B O U G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004F 0055 0047 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3649554139 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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