bogue

¹ American  

[bohg] / boʊg /

noun

Gulf States.

1. a bayou, stream, or waterway.

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bogue ² American  

[bohg] / boʊg /

verb (used without object)

Nautical.

bogued, boguing

1. (of a sailing vessel) to tend to fall off from the wind.

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Etymology

Origin of bogue¹

1805–15; (< Louisiana French ) < Choctaw bok creek, stream, river

Origin of bogue²

Perhaps akin to dial. bog to move off

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bogue bogued

Bogue: 'I don't git much done 'thout I bogue right in along 'th my men.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

The next, his every faculty was concentrated on a singular phenomenon on the bank of the bogue.

From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Charles Egbert Craffock

Node:bogue out, Next:bogus, Previous:bogotify, Up:= B = bogue out /bohg owt/ vi.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele

"His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterwards."

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele

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