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Bough vs Bouge - What's the difference?

bough | bouge |

As nouns the difference between bough and bouge

is that bough is a firm branch of a tree while bouge is the right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.

As a verb bouge is

to swell out.

bough

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A firm branch of a tree.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 18. p. 172.
    • A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    bouge

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of (bouche).

    Noun

    (-)
  • The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
  • *2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p, 29:
  • *:Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks [...].

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of bulge.

    Verb

    (boug)
  • To swell out.
  • To bilge.
  • * Hakluyt
    • Their ship bouged .
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