bouchon
Antillean Creole
Etymology
Noun
bouchon
Champenois
Alternative forms
- (Rémois) bouton
Etymology
Inherited from Old French buison.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.ʃõ/
Noun
bouchon m (plural bouchons)
- (Briard, Troyen, Langrois) bush
References
- Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
- Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[2] (in French), Troyes
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French bouchon (“bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum”), from bousche (“handful of straw, bundle of twigs”), from Vulgar Latin bosca (“brush, bundle of branches”), from Frankish *bosc (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”). More at bush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.ʃɔ̃/
Audio: (file)
Noun
bouchon m (plural bouchons)
- cork, bung, stopper, plug
- float (in angling)
- traffic jam
- Synonym: embouteillage
- (computing) dongle
- (small) restaurant
- (colloquial) kid, mite, munchkin
Derived terms
- bouchon d'oreille (“earplug”)
- bouchonner
- pousser le bouchon
- tire-bouchon
Descendants
Further reading
- “bouchon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Noun
bouchon m (plural bouchons)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bouchon, supplement)