Rouge vs Bouge - What's the difference?
rouge | bouge |
Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
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Any reddish pink colour.
(Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored.
In the Eton College field game, a five-point score awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball.
(chemistry, archaic) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.
To apply rouge (makeup).
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 [...].
To swell out.
To bilge.
* Hakluyt
As nouns the difference between rouge and bouge
is that rouge is 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.rouge
English
(wikipedia rouge)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (makeup) blushVerb
(roug)- She rouged her face before setting out for the party.
Derived terms
* jeweller's rougeSee also
*Anagrams
* ----bouge
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of (bouche).Noun
(-)Etymology 2
Variant of bulge.Verb
(boug)- Their ship bouged .