Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bouge"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bouge \Bouge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bouged}] [Variant of bulge.
Cf. {Bowge}.]
1. To swell out. [Obs.]
2. To bilge. [Obs.] ``Their ship bouged.'' --Hakluyt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bouge \Bouge\, v. t.
To stave in; to bilge. [Obs.] --Holland.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bouge \Bouge\, n. [F. bouche mouth, victuals.]
Bouche (see {Bouche}, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obs.]
[They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge
for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with
fasting. --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bouge \Bouge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gouged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gouging}.]
1. To scoop out with a gouge.
2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out
the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]
Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly
practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some
parts of the United States.
3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]
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