different between ouche vs bouche

English

Alternative forms

• nouch, ouch, owch

Etymology

From Middle English ouche, from nouche, which in phrases like a nouche was re-analyzed as an ouche. From Anglo-Norman nusche and Old French nusche (with metanalysis), from a Germanic source; compare German Nusche, Proto-Germanic *hnuts.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a?t?/

Noun

ouche (plural ouches)

1. (poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:

     and the horse [was] trapped in the same wyse, down to the helys, wyth many owchys, i-sette with stonys and perelys in golde, to the numbir of a thousande.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     a Persian mitre on her hed / She wore, with crownes and owches garnished [...].

   • With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

   • 1896, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Story of Ung’, Seven Seas:

     There would be no pelts of the reindeer, flung down at thy cave for a gift, / Nor dole of the oily timber that strands with the Baltic drift; / No store of well-drilled needles, nor ouches of amber pale; / No new-cut tongues of the bison, nor meat of the stranded whale.

English

Etymology 1

From French bouche (“mouth, victuals”). Doublet of bocca.

Alternative forms

• bouch

Noun

bouche (plural bouches)

1. (obsolete) An allowance of food and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

Etymology 2

Verb

bouche (third-person singular simple present bouches, present participle bouching, simple past and past participle bouched)

1. Alternative form of bush (to line)

Noun

bouche (plural bouches)

1. Alternative form of bush (a lining)

French

Etymology

From Middle French bouche, from Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca. Doublet of bouque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?/

Noun

bouche f (plural bouches)

1. mouth

Synonyms

• gueule (vulgar)
• clapet (informal)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca.

Noun

bouche f (plural bouches)

1. mouth

Descendants

• French: bouche