Middle English Dictionary Entry
bocche n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bocche n. Also boch(e, botch(e, boiche. |
| Etymology | ONF boche (corresp. to CF boce); for meaning cp. ML botium, bocium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. boce n. & bouche n.(2).
1.
Any pathological swelling, eruption or lesion, such as a boil, a tumor, a (running) sore, an ulcer, a tubercle, a bubo.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.461 : And grope sore bochches wiþ here hondes, and kusse þe seke men.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)46a/a : Þe mouþ..is I greued wiþ pymples & bleynes, and wiþ whelkes & bocchis..Bocchis..in þe mouþ of soukynge children..comeþ of scharpnes of melke.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)75a/a : Ȝif þe mete be to moche, it..brediþ..bocchis, schabbis & postemes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)201b/a : Iaspis..helpeþ..olde bocches and byles.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)278b/a : If he haue bocche or a wounde.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)16/1 : To him þat is woundid or ellis haþ a boch.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)35 : Boocches that comen to þe swyne under þe Shulders.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)55 : To the howndis commen botches þat commen to hem in her þrote.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Lev.13.18 : The flesh and the skynne, in the whiche a bocche is growun.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ex.9.9 : Botchis [WB(1): biles] schulen be in men..in al the lond of Egipt.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Job 2.7 : Sathan..smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche [WB(1): bleyne] fro the sole of the foot til to his top.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)8b : Þis erbe..is myche worthe for to ripe bylis and bochis.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)12902 : The Gregeis risen vp of her couches With many woundes & many bocches.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)7b/a : Of alcola and bocches of þe mouthe..of vlceres i. bocches or byles.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)38b/b : Þe cancre þat is a bocche [L vlcus].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)465 : Soore, wonde, or botche: Morbus.
- a1450 *Treat.Garsing (Htrn 307)f.166v : Þou schalt make garsyng in ij placis or þre..bitwixe þe schuldir & þe elbowe for þe blod of brisure in þe schuldris & þere also for aking of þe iȝen & of þe heed. Also for aking of þe schuldris & armes make a garsyng vpon þe arm on þe wristis.
- a1450 St.Etheldr.(Fst B.3)474 : To let þe foule humour ouȝt of hurre boyche renne.
- ?a1450 Lanfranc (Add 12056)5/16 : Bocche in þe pyntel.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)38/74 : For to breke a boch, Take turmentyne, hony and salt & temper hem with the whit of an ey & lay it on the boch or byle.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)38/80 : Lay it on the hede of the bocche.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)250/13 : For to breke þe felun or boche..Take þe yelkys of eggis..and ley on þe sore.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)3492 : On his face was a boche beeled.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)59/15 : For to make salwys for boches and bilys.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)8565 : Saphyr..sleth bochches & ffelouns.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)f.75ra : Sathan .. smote Job with the worst botchys & blaynes fro þe plante of hys foot vnto the toppe of hys heed.
- a1500 BodAdd.A.106 Lapid.(BodAdd A.106)42 : Ye saphyrs ar moche worth for to hele al maner of boches.
2.
Specif.: (a) a glandular swelling or bubo (of the plague or pestilence); the plague; ~ of Egipt; (b) a lesion of the lung; the ~ of the lungen, tuberculosis; (c) a goiter; (d) catarrh.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 PPl.B (LdMisc 581:Kane)13.249 : I wolde caste hym [the pope] a bille, þat he sent me..a salue for þe pestilence, And that his blessyng and his bulles bocches miȝte destroye.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Deut.28.27 : The Lord smyte thee with the botche [WB(1): byil] of Egipt.
- ?a1425(a1400) Brut-1377 (Corp-C 174)303/8 : So grete a pestilences of men..& namely þoruȝ bocches, þat he þat siked þis day, deid on þe iij day after.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)52/21 : If it [the plague venom] passe nott owte bi blode latynge, it festres..& castes a man in-to an agewe & makes a boche or a kille.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)53/5 : If þe boche be bi-twix þe thee & þe body, it commes of the lyuer.
- a1500 Burg.Pest.(2) (Sln 2320)74 : It..maketh a bocche in som of the three clensyng places.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)48a/a : Tisik men alwey coghe for þe bocche of þe longen, and by spetynge he dischargiþ hamself of quyttir of þe boche.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)54b/a : Bocchis..þat comeþ of scharpnes of humour þat fletiþ to þe substaunce of þe longe..Whanne þe longe haþ bocchis by scharpnes of humour..[it] may not be esyliche..helid for tendirnes & contynual meuynge of þe longe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)97b/a : Bocchis & postemes in þe longen.
c
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.299 : Men þat woneþ toward þat side of Burgoyne haueþ bocches vnder þe chyn..as þey he were double chynned.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)139a/a : In hem þat drynken snowe watir contynualliche, hit brediþ..grete bocchis vndir þe chynne.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)4/40 : Of bocche þat hongyth as swynes babbe undire here nekkys.
d
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)232b/b : Þe herbe..helpiþ aȝeins þe bocche in þe brest.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)225/24 : Also it bifalliþ þat children han grete bocchis in her brest, & þat comeþ of cowȝinge þat puttiþ out þe matere.
3.
Fig. (a) A corrupt person; a rotten condition; (b) ~ of the herte, rancor, resentment.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)20.83 : Byles, and bocches, and brennyng agues.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.4.14 : Catullus clepid a consul of Rome..'postum' or 'boch'.
b
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1122 : When knightz for þe comune..berste oute alle þe boicches and blaynes of þe hert..Leste þe fals felon festre with-ynne.
4.
(a) A hump (on the back of a cripple or demon); also fig.; (b) the hump (of a camel).
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 Body & S.(5) (Auch)p.56 : Fendes..Sum were rogged and rowe tayled, Wiþ brode boches [vrr. bulches, bunches] on her bak.
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)90/1660 : A schepherde bitwenen his scholdres twein A gret bocche hedde.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)226/5 : A greet boch þat comeþ of þe passioun of the riggeboon.
- c1400 WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.9)Lev.21.19 : Botche, ether..in the brest ether in the bak.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)707 : Gibbus: a boche in bake.
- a1605(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Stw 952(2))18297 : The bonche vpon my bake..is the boch..with whiche this folke relygious bene ybonchyd.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.30.6 : Berende..vp on the bocche [WB(2): botche] of camailes ther tresores.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)54 : A chamel hath but oo boche on the bake and evyl ryche man hath ii, on of evil possessions and þe tothir of synnes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 GLeg.Suppl.Edw. (Add 35298:Hamer)14/452 : Manye..wepte for ioye for þat grete mekenes of the kyng, and thaye folowid after to se whate wolde befalle, and by the waye his senewis were recchid oute and the kernels of þe bouchis of his face, and grete plentye of blode rane oute of his scurvis vpon the kyngis clothis.
Note: Editor's note: "bouchis: not in MED with this spelling. See MED bocche n. 1, boil, tumour, running sore, ulcer."
Note: New form.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. botch.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.(b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. botch of the lungs.