bouse
French, noun/buz/
bouse is spelled B-O-U-S-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouse is a French feminine noun meaning “cowpat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déjection bovine”.
What does bouse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecowpat
- 2
femininewater-bouget
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Déjection bovine. 2. Résidu de la pulpe d’olive obtenu à la fin du pressage. 3. Produit ou œuvre quelconque de piètre qualité.
noun: 1. Meuble parfois appelé chantepleure dans les armoiries. Elle se présente sous la forme d'une paire d’outres qu'on passait autrefois autour du cou pour transporter l’eau.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bouse
- bouses plural
- bouze
- beuse
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouse?
- /buz/
- \buz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bouse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bouse in French?
bouse appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).