# boche
## English
### Noun

boche (plural boches or boche)
* Alternative letter-case form of Boche.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin bucca.

### Noun

boche f (plural boches) (ORB, broad)
* mouth

### References

* bouche in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* boche in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Etymology

Either directly from tête de boche (“stubbornhead”), perhaps derived from caboche (“head”); or shortened from alboche, an alternation of allemand (“German”) influenced by tête de boche or the element -boche in rigolboche (“funny dance”), the latter perhaps ultimately from bamboche (“large marionette”).
Alternatively, from the German family name Bosch.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔʃ/
* Audio (Belgium):(file)
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* Rhymes: -ɔʃ

### Noun

boche m or f by sense (plural boches) (often capitalized)
* (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) Boche, Kraut, German
    Synonyms: chleuh, schleu, fritz

### Further reading

* “boche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

Compare bocha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔt͡ʃe̝/

### Noun

boche m (plural boches)
* lung
    Synonyms: bofe, livián, pulmón
* sausage made with pork lungs

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “boche”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “boche”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “boche”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* bocce
* boce
* bouche
* buche

### Etymology

From Latin bucca.

### Pronunciation

* (classical) IPA: /ˈbutʃə/
* (late) IPA: /ˈbuʃə/

### Noun

boche oblique singular, f (oblique plural boches, nominative singular boche, nominative plural boches)
* (anatomy) mouth

#### Descendants

* Middle French: bouche
** French: bouche
* Norman: bouoche
* Walloon: boutche

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* voche (Nuorese)
* boghe (Logudorese)
* boxi (Campidanese)

### Etymology

From Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboke/

### Noun

boche f (plural boches)
* (Nuorese) voice

## Spanish
### Verb

boche
* inflection of bochar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative