Bouge
Bouge ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
[Variant of bulge. Compare Bowge.]
1.
To swell out. [Obsolete]
2.
To bilge. [Obsolete]
Their ship bouged.
Bouge , transitive verb
To stave in; to bilge. [Obsolete] — Holland
Bouge , noun
[French bouche mouth, victuals.]
Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obsolete]
[They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted... with fasting.
Bouge , transitive verb
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.]
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, United States]