bougre

From Old French bogre (“heretic”) (1172), also bogresse (“person who indulges in unnatural debauchery”) (1260), from Late Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgarian”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ). Doublet of bulgare and boug.

• IPA^(key): /buɡʁ/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [buɡ], [bʊɡ]

• Audio:

  (file)

bougre m (plural bougres)

1. (colloquial, Louisiana) chap, guy

   Synonyms: gars, mec

2. wretch (miserable, luckless person)
3. imbecile; idiot (general pejorative)
   • 2015 June, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 2, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:

     Français, freluquet, beaux yeux, une dégaine de pédé de rocker, cheveux longs… il ne ressemble à grand-chose, en fait, mais ce n'est pas le mauvais bougre.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (dated) sodomite, bugger, homosexual
5. (invariable, followed by 'de') bloody (intensifier)

• bougrement
• bougresse
• bougrerie

• → English: bugger
• Karipúna Creole French: bug
• Portuguese: bugre

• “bougre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

• bouger