"Boche" meaning in English

See Boche in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bɒʃ/ Forms: Boches [plural], Boche [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒʃ Etymology: Borrowed from French boche. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|fr|boche|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} French boche, {{bor+|en|fr|boche}} Borrowed from French boche Head templates: {{en-noun|s|Boche}} Boche (plural Boches or Boche)
  1. (dated, slang, ethnic slur) A German. Tags: dated, ethnic, slang, slur Synonyms: Fritz, Jerry, Kraut, Hun, boche
    Sense id: en-Boche-en-noun-G5-Jfnfw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English ethnic slurs

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Boche meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "boche",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "French boche",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "boche"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French boche",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French boche.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Boches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Boche",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "Boche"
      },
      "expansion": "Boche (plural Boches or Boche)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English ethnic slurs",
          "parents": [
            "Ethnic slurs",
            "Offensive terms",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A German."
      ],
      "id": "en-Boche-en-noun-G5-Jfnfw",
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "German",
          "German"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, slang, ethnic slur) A German."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Fritz"
        },
        {
          "word": "Jerry"
        },
        {
          "word": "Kraut"
        },
        {
          "word": "Hun"
        },
        {
          "word": "boche"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "ethnic",
        "slang",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɒʃ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒʃ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "bosh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Boche"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "boche",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "French boche",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "boche"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French boche",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French boche.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Boches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Boche",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "Boche"
      },
      "expansion": "Boche (plural Boches or Boche)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English ethnic slurs",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English slang",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒʃ",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒʃ/1 syllable"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A German."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "German",
          "German"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, slang, ethnic slur) A German."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Fritz"
        },
        {
          "word": "Jerry"
        },
        {
          "word": "Kraut"
        },
        {
          "word": "Hun"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "ethnic",
        "slang",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɒʃ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒʃ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "bosh"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "boche"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Boche"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.