Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, to drop off from the wind; edge away to leeward with the wind, as some vessels of inferior sailing qualities do.
- noun An acanthopterygian fish, Box vulgaris, of the family Sparidæ, found in the Mediterranean, on the west coast of Africa, and in rare cases on the coasts of Britain.
- noun A mouth; an embouchure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Naut.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
- noun (Zoöl.) The boce; -- called also
bogue bream . Seeboce .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
sea bream native to the eastern Atlantic, Boops boops. - noun
Bayou ,waterway .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jumpst shootst throbbst into me mouth like a bogue and arrohs!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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They said “bogue” for repulsive and “queer” for weird.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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When I told her there were plenty, she went off to look herself, and came back and told me in a peremptory tone that 'she had looked and there was not a single bogue there!'
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It's like we OD'd on hope last year and now we're all bogue.
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It's like we OD'd on hope last year and now we're all bogue.
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It's like we OD'd on hope last year and now we're all bogue.
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It said that the landings of other major species increased from 10.8 per cent for bogue to
timesofmalta.com 2009
sionnach commented on the word bogue
a kind of fish
October 28, 2008