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Webster 1913 Edition
Bouge
1.
To swell out.
[Obs.]
2.
To bilge.
[Obs.]
“Their ship bouged.” Hakluyt.
Bouge
,Verb.
T.
To stave in; to bilge.
[Obs.]
Holland.
Bouge
,Noun.
[F.
bouche
mouth, victuals.] Bouche (see
Bouche
, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obs.]
[They] made room for a bombardman that brought
bouge
for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson.
Bouge
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gouged
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gouging
.] 1.
To scoop out with a gouge.
2.
To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.
[K S.]
☞ A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
3.
To cheat in a bargain; to chouse.
[Slang, U. S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Bouge
BOUGE
,Verb.
I.
BOUGE
,Noun.