boche

B3O1C3H4E1
/bɒʃ/

noun

A German.

RareScrabble 12

Meanings

boche1

nounboche (plural boches or boche)

plural boches

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Boche.

    But Jacques went right on, talking, talking--about the right flank and the left flank and the boches and the Americans.

    1920, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1920
    2 more examples

    Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him.

    1916, Herbert Wes McBride, The Emma Gees

    I tell you he's the stuff that will take 'em over the top and make the boches feel cold in the pit of their fat tumtums when they see him coming.

    1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings

Boche2

nounBoche (plural Boches or Boche)

plural Boches · alternative boche · alternative Bosch · alternative Bosche

  1. datedderogatoryethnicslangslurA German.

    Synonyms: Fritz, Jerry, Kraut, Hun

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA German.

More synonyms by meaning

nounoffensive term for a person of German descent

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchboche
  2. Frenchboche
  3. EnglishBoche

Borrowed from French boche.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with boche

All rhymes →

Sounds the same

Cite this entry
APA

boche. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boche

MLA

“boche.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boche. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boche,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boche.

Source: boche on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.