boche

See also: Boche, bóche, bóchē, and bočhe

English

Noun

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

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bucca.

Noun

boche f (plural boches) (ORB, broad)

1. mouth

References

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

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

Noun

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

1. (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) Boche, Kraut, German

   Synonyms: chleuh, schleu, fritz

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Compare bocha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡ʃe̝/

Noun

boche m (plural boches)

1. lung

   Synonyms: bofe, livián, pulmón

2. sausage made with pork lungs

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “boche”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “boche”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “boche”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Old French

Alternative forms

• bocce
• boce
• bouche
• buche

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) mouth

Descendants

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

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• voche (Nuorese)
• boghe (Logudorese)
• boxi (Campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboke/

Noun

boche f (plural boches)

1. (Nuorese) voice

Spanish

Verb

boche

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