Masculine

bougre

  1. (colloquial, masculine) chap, guy
  2. (masculine) wretch (miserable, luckless person)
  3. (derogatory, masculine) imbecile; idiot
  4. (dated, masculine) sodomite, bugger (homosexual)

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/buɡʁ/
Etymology

In summary

From Old French bogre (“heretic”) (1172), also bogresse (“person who indulges in unnatural debauchery”) (1260), from Late Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgarian”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ). Doublet of bulgare and boug.

Sign in to write sticky notes