bogue

See also: Bogue and bogué

English

the bogue (Boops boops)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊɡ/

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

bogue (plural bogues)

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

Translations

Boops boops

• Asturian: boga (ast), boa (ast)
• Catalan: boga (ca), bogarró (ca)
• Danish: okseøjefisk c
• Dutch: bokvis (nl) m
• Estonian: suursilm-kuldvöötahven
• Finnish: boga (fi)
• French: bogue (fr) f, boga (fr)
• Galician: boga (gl) f
• German: Gelbstriemenbrasse f
• Greek: γόπα (el) f (gópa)

  Ancient: βῶξ (bôx)

• Kabuverdianu: bóga
• Latin: bōx m
• Romanian: gupă f
• Russian: бопс (bops), полосатик (ru) (polosatik)
• Sicilian: balaijola, uoppa
• Spanish: boga (es) f
• Swedish: oxögonfisk c
• Venetan: bobba

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bogue (plural bogues)

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

Translations

bayou — see bayou

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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.

References

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

Anagrams

• bouge

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔɡ/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

1. chestnut burr

Etymology 2

From Latin bōca.

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

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

Etymology 3

From Italian boga.

Noun

bogue f (plural bogues)

1. boxfish

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English bug.

Alternative forms

• bug, beug

Noun

bogue m (plural bogues)

1. (computing) bug

Derived terms

• déboguer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bouge, bougé

Spanish

Verb

bogue

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