boche

boche (plural boches or boche)

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.

Inherited from Latin bucca.

boche f (plural boches) (ORB, broad)

1. mouth

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /bɔʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

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

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

   Synonyms: chleuh, schleu, fritz

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

Compare bocha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡ʃe̝/

boche m (plural boches)

1. lung

   Synonyms: bofe, livián, pulmón

2. sausage made with pork lungs

• 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

• bocce
• boce
• bouche
• buche

From Latin bucca.

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

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

1. (anatomy) mouth

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

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

From Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboke/

boche f (plural boches)

1. (Nuorese) voice

boche

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