bouchon

From French bouchon.

bouchon

1. cork; lid; bottle cap

Inherited from Middle French bouchon (“bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum”), from bousche (“handful of straw, bundle of twigs”), from Vulgar Latin bosca (“brush, bundle of branches”), from Frankish *bosc (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”). More at bush.

• IPA^(key): /bu.ʃɔ̃/

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bouchon m (plural bouchons)

1. cork, bung, stopper, plug
2. float (in angling)
3. traffic jam

   Synonym: embouteillage

4. (computing) dongle
5. (small) restaurant
6. (colloquial) kid, mite, munchkin

• bouchon d’oreille (“earplug”)
• bouchonner
• pousser le bouchon
• tire-bouchon

• Antillean Creole: bouchon
• → Bulgarian: бушон (bušon)
• → Portuguese: bujão

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

bouchon m (plural bouchons)

1. bundle
2. cork; stopper (for a bottle)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bouchon, supplement)