bouget

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/ˈbuːdʒɪt//ˈbuːdʒɛt//ˈbuːɡɛt/

noun

A charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.

Similar
water-bouget
OriginMiddle French bougette →
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Meanings

nounbouget (plural bougets)

plural bougets · alternative bowget

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of budget (“purse, bag; etc”).

    With that, out of his bouget forth he drew Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550
  2. governmentA charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.

    Synonyms: water-bouget

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.

Similar
water-bouget
Also see
water-bouget

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchbougette“little pouch”
  2. Englishbouget

The heraldic sense derives from an older spelling and meaning of budget, "small bag" (compare Middle English bouget, bowgett (“a leather bag or wallet”)), from Middle French bougette (“little pouch”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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