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   Bouge , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bouged ] [Variant of bulge. Cf. Bowge.]
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   To swell out. [Obs.]
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   To bilge. [Obs.] “Their ship bouged.” 
   Hakluyt.
   
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   Bouge, v. t. To stave in; to bilge. [Obs.]
   Holland.
   
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   Bouge, n. [F. bouche mouth, victuals.] Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obs.]
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    [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting.
   B. Jonson.
   
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   Bouge , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gouged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging .]
   To scoop out with a gouge.
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   To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]
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   ☞ A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
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   To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]
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