Boche
pronunciation
How to pronounce Boche in British English:
UK [bɔʃ]
How to pronounce Boche in American English:
US [bɑʃ, bɔʃ]
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- Noun:
- offensive terms for a person of German descent
Word Origin
- Boche
- Boche: see cabbage
- Boche (n.)
- "German soldier in World War I," 1914, perhaps from French slang boche "rascal," applied to the Germans; a word of unknown origin. Another theory traces it to French Allemand "German," in eastern French Al(le)moche, altered contemptuously to Alboche by association with caboche, a slang word for "head," literally "cabbage" (compare tete de boche, French for "German" in an 1887 slang dictionary). All the French terms are no older than mid-19c.
Example
- 1. I 'm not a boche . This is a british trench.is it ?