barge

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːd͡ʒ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

barge (plural barges)

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat[1].
7. (US, dialect, dated, historical) A large bus used for excursions[1].

• lighter

barge (third-person singular simple present barges, present participle barging, simple past and past participle barged)

1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 209:

     I mean I couldn't sit there on that desk for the rest of my life, and besides, I was afraid my parents might barge in on me all of a sudden and I wanted to at least say hello to her before they did.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 52:

     In making this extension, the Metropolitan also built a connection from Farringdon Street towards an overground railway that had just barged its way into the City from Kent. This railway was the London, Chatham & Dover.

2. (transitive) To push someone.
   • 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎:

     The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.

• shoulder-barge

• Aberg, Berga, Gaber, Garbe, begar, rebag

• IPA^(key): /baʁʒ/

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Variant of barje, clipping of barjot, verlan form of jobard.

barge (plural barges)

1. (Verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

Inherited from Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

barge f (plural barges)

1. barge (boat)

• → Russian: баржа (barža)
  • → Georgian: ბარჟა (barža)

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.

barge f (plural barges)

1. godwit

• “barge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gerba

• bargge, baarge, berge, barche

Borrowed from Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

• IPA^(key): /ˈbard͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈbaːrd͡ʒ(ə)/

barge (plural barges)

1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

• English: barge
• Scots: bairge (possibly)

• “bā̆rǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈparːke/

barge

1. inflection of bargat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

From Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

barge oblique singular, f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

1. boat

• Middle French: barge
  • French: barge
    • → Russian: баржа (barža)
• → Middle English: barge, bargge, baarge, berge, barche
  • English: barge
  • Scots: bairge (possibly)