bouché

See also: bouche and Bouché

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ʃe/

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Participle

bouché (feminine bouchée, masculine plural bouchés, feminine plural bouchées)

1. past participle of boucher

Adjective

bouché (feminine bouchée, masculine plural bouchés, feminine plural bouchées)

1. (informal, of the nose, of the ears) stuffy, stuffed up, blocked up, clogged up

   avoir le nez bouché ― to have a stuffy nose

   avoir les oreilles bouchées ― to have clogged ears

2. (informal) thick, dumb

   T’es bouché ou quoi ? ― You dumb or what?

Further reading

• “bouché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French boucher (“to plug”), compare Haitian Creole bouche.

Verb

bouché

1. to plug

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales