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- noun Alternative form of
Boche .
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Examples
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Finally they got together; the boche was a biplane and had the edge on Genet.
Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun 1902
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In "Suite Francaise", Irène Némirovsky has a character (French, under the occupation) call a German soldier a "boche" to his face.
From Bohemia to the battlefields and back again, our dainty heroine describes her adventures 2010
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In comparison, you won't find many people in France still using "boche" btw.
Kraut C N Heidelberg 2009
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I even pushed aside with scorn the proffered bribe of six "boche" buttons, assuring the man that "I would keep my toothache as
The White Road to Verdun Kathleen Burke 1922
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Connie Mack, a Florida representative, a Republican “no iba a pelar ese boche” was not going to miss such an opportunity.
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Resistance in the XIX Corps sector continues to be rugged; the boche here shows no sign of demoralisation, 30th division made only 300 yards, and the 29th were only able to make 800.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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Colonel Hammonds Birks of 120th Infantry radioed to 30th Division that, “the going was very slow … the boche had tanks dug in, hull down, and were shooting perhaps more artillery than they had ever previously used along any American sector.”
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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Resistance in the XIX Corps sector continues to be rugged; the boche here shows no sign of demoralisation, 30th division made only 300 yards, and the 29th were only able to make 800.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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Colonel Hammonds Birks of 120th Infantry radioed to 30th Division that, “the going was very slow … the boche had tanks dug in, hull down, and were shooting perhaps more artillery than they had ever previously used along any American sector.”
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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Resistance in the XIX Corps sector continues to be rugged; the boche here shows no sign of demoralisation, 30th division made only 300 yards, and the 29th were only able to make 800.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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