English

Noun

Boche ‎(plural Boches)

1. (dated, slang, ethnic slur) A German.

Synonyms

• Fritz
• jerry
• Kraut
• Hun

Translations

French

Noun

Boche m, f ‎(plural Boches)

1. (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) Kraut, Fritz

Synonyms

• chleuh, schleu, fritz

Portuguese

Noun

Boche m f (plural Boches)

1. (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) jerry

English

Noun

boche ‎(plural boches)

1. Alternative form of Boche
   • 1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings:

     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.

   • 1920, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1920:

     But Jacques went right on, talking, talking--about the right flank and the left flank and the boches and the Americans.

   • 1916, Herbert Wes McBride, The Emma Gees:

     Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

boche m, f ‎(plural boches) (often capitalized)

1. (pejorative) Boche (German)

Old French

Alternative forms

• bocce
• boce
• bouche
• buche

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt.ʃə/

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) mouth

Descendants

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