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boucharde: a bush hammer; a granulating roller used to add marking to cement
bouche: mouth
bouche bée: open-mouthed, agape
bouche bée: open-mouthed
bouche d'incendie: fire hydrant
bouche d'égout: manhole
bouche de miel, cœur de fiel: One who speaks sweetly but harbors bitterness or malice; smooth lips hide an evil heart.
bouche à feu: cannon
bouche à oreille: word of mouth; rumour
bouche à pipe: dicksucking lips; mouth that looks ideal for a fellatio; mouth that often performs fellatio
bouche à pipes: alternative spelling of bouche à pipe
bouche-trou: a second fiddle, a stopgap, a stand-in, a fill-in, a makeweight; a rebound (a person whose sole purpose is to fill a void left by another person)
bouche-à-bouche: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth, kiss of life
boucher: to cork up; to bung; to block up
boucher: butcher
boucherie: butchery, butchering (profession of the butcher); butchershop; bloodbath, slaughter; social event at which people gather to slaughter a pig
bouchon: cork, bung, stopper, plug; float (in angling); traffic jam; dongle; restaurant
bouchonnage: rubdown (of a horse)
bouchonner: to rub down; for the traffic to come to a standstill, for there to be a traffic jam
bouchonné: corky (wine)
bouchot: mussel bed (of vertical posts)
bouchoteur: Someone who looks after a mussel bed
bouchère: female equivalent of boucher (“butcher”); butcher's wife
bouché: stuffy, stuffed up, blocked up, clogged up; thick, dumb
bouchée: mouthful; bouchée
bouchée de pain: very low price
bouchée à la reine: a kind of filled vol-au-vent, served hot
bouclage: the soft cut-off of a newspaper's edition grace period (ie. the time before stories / advertisements can no longer be accepted); the closing time; cordon, block
boucle: loop (line returning to its origin); earring; buckle (of a belt, etc.); curl (of hair); ringlet
boucle d'oreille: earring
boucle infinie: infinite loop
boucler: to buckle (to fasten); to curl (make curly); to tie up, to finish up (e.g. an affair or case); to shut; to curl up (become curly)
boucler la boucle: to come full circle
bouclette: a small loop or buckle; a small curl (of hair)
bouclier: shield (broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body); shield (anything which protects or defends)
bouclier humain: human shield (civilian deliberately placed in or around combat targets to deter an enemy from attacking those targets)
bouclier thermique: heat shield (shield designed of a substance that absorbs excessive heat)
bouclé: curly
bouddha: buddha
bouddhique: Buddhist
bouddhiquement: in a Buddhist manner
bouddhisme: Buddhism
bouddhiste: Buddhist
bouddhiste: Buddhist
bouddhéité: Buddhahood
bouder: to sulk, pout; to frown upon, to be discontented with
bouderie: pouting; sulk
boudeur: sulky (gloomy)
boudi: Expressing admiration, anger or astonishment.
boudin: blood sausage, black pudding; tube, ring; fatty, lardarse; ugly person (not necessarily obese)
boudin blanc: white pudding; a kind of sausage made with milk, bread or flour, often onions and meat from pork, veal, poultry, etc.
boudin noir: black pudding, blood sausage
boudiner: to contort into the shape of a sausage
boudiné: podgy
boudiou: Expressing admiration, anger or astonishment.
boudoir: boudoir (woman's private sitting room); sponge, ladyfinger
boudotte: belly button
boue: mud; dirt
boue rouge: red mud
bouette: mud