- the Boche
- informal, dated Germans, especially German soldiers, collectively.→ Boche
English new terms dictionary. 2014.
the Boche
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Boche — ► NOUN (the Boche) informal, dated ▪ Germans, especially German soldiers, collectively. ORIGIN French soldiers slang, literally rascal , applied to Germans in World War I … English terms dictionary
Boche — [bɒʃ] noun (the Boche) informal, dated Germans, especially German soldiers, collectively. Origin from Fr. soldiers sl., orig. in the sense rascal ; applied to Germans in the First World War … English new terms dictionary
boche — noun the Boche an offensive word meaning the Germans or German soldiers, used in Britain during the First and Second World Wars … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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