boche

Noun

boche (plural boches)

1. Alternative form of Boche
   • 1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings‎:

     I tell you he's the stuff that will take 'em over the top and make the boches feel cold in the pit of their fat tumtums when they see him coming.

   • 1920, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1920‎:

     But Jacques went right on, talking, talking--about the right flank and the left flank and the boches and the Americans.

   • 1916, Herbert Wes McBride, The Emma Gees‎:

     Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔʃ/

• Audio (Belgium)

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

Noun

boche m, f (plural boches) (often capitalized)

1. (pejorative) Boche (German)

   Synonyms: chleuh, fritz

Further reading

• “boche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Alternative forms

• bocce
• boce
• bouche
• buche

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.tʃə/

Noun

boche f (oblique plural boches, nominative singular boche, nominative plural boches)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Verb

boche

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bochar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bochar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bochar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bochar.