name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
bogue
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Pronunciation
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/boːɡ/
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/boʊɡ/
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name
Meaning 2
An important strait in the Pearl River Delta between Guangzhou and the South China Sea.
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Usage: usually
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name
Meaning 3
A town in Kansas.
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name
Meaning 4
A town in North Carolina.
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noun
Meaning 5
A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
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noun
Meaning 6
A bayou or waterway.
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Usage: Southern-US, especially
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verb
Meaning 7
To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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History
Etymology
In reference to the Chinese strait, a corruption of Portuguese Boca do Tigre (literally “Mouth of the Tiger”), a calque of the Chinese name 虎門 /虎门 (Hǔmén, literally “Tiger Gate”).
Related to Spanish boga (“a ray-finned fish; Leporinus obtusidens”), from Late Latin bōca, bōx; Box vulgaris is an older name for Boops boops. Compare the obsolete term boce for this fish.
From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”). Doublet of bayou.
Related to Spanish bogar (“to row”), Old French voguer (“to sway, move along”).
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: boga — Boops boops
- Asturian: boa — Boops boops
- Catalan: boga — Boops boops
- Catalan: bogarró — Boops boops
- Danish: okseøjefisk — Boops boops
- Dutch: bokvis — Boops boops
- Estonian: suursilm-kuldvöötahven — Boops boops
- Finnish: boga — Boops boops
- French: bogue — Boops boops
- French: boga — Boops boops
- Galician: boga — Boops boops
- German: Gelbstriemenbrasse — Boops boops
- Greek: γόπα (gópa) — Boops boops
- Ancient Greek: βῶξ (bôx) — Boops boops
- Ancient Greek: βόαξ (bóax) — Boops boops
- Italian: boga — Boops boops
- Kabuverdianu: bóga — Boops boops
- Latin: bōx — Boops boops
- Latin: bōca — Boops boops
- Romanian: gupă — Boops boops
- Russian: бопс (bops) — Boops boops
- Russian: полосатик (polosatik) — Boops boops
- Sicilian: balaijola — Boops boops
- Sicilian: uoppa — Boops boops
- Spanish: boga — Boops boops
- Swedish: oxögonfisk — Boops boops
- Turkish: kupes — Boops boops
- Venetan: bobba — Boops boops