Middle English Dictionary Entry
bǒuched ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | bǒuched ppl. |
| Etymology | Cp. bǒuche n.(2) & OF bocu, bochu. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. bocched.
1.
(a) Having humps or bulges, humped, bumpy; (b) humpbacked; also, a hunchback; (c) morally or spiritually deformed, perverted (esp. by excess).
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6255 : Turkes he bisette wiþ hem..Shorte yswired..And boched tofore and bihynde.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)182 : It is sond it is grauel that hepeth to michel to gideres that maketh the botme of the see bouched [OF bocu].
b
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)154 : In as michel as j am bowched [OF bocue], the bouchede and the enbosede [OF bocuaus et..bocus] that ben comen in to these cloistres ben my kyn.
c
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)153 : My bowche..is a thing superflue whiche maketh alle rules bowchede [OF bocue] and enpecheth al that riht is.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)154 : Manye oothere..ben bouched [OF bocus] biside here rule and gon biside the rihte wey wrongfulliche.