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Eh vilain bougre! and so forth. 356 To those critics who complain of these raw vulgarisms and puerile indecencies in The Nights I can reply only by quoting the words said to have been said by Dr. Johnson to the lady who complained of the naughty words in his dictionary — You must have been looking for them,
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Sinon, mon ordi merde a fond et ca je suis sur que c a cause d'Allen, le bougre KYAAAAAH! mais bon donc je m'attends a ce qu'il explose d'un moment a un autre.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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I cannot but think that “bougre” took its especial modern signification after the French became acquainted with the Brazil, where the Huguenots (in A.D. 1555) were founding a Nouvelle France, alias Equinoctiale, alias Antarctique, and whence the savages were carried as curiosities to Paris.
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Le mutin Anglois, et le bravache Escossois Le bougre Italien, et le fol Francois; Le poltron Romain, le larron de Gascogne,
Religio Medici 2007
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Son evolution tout au long du jeu et je me dis qu'il a sacrement evolué le bougre ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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A bitter complaint to the Directory referred to his erstwhile commander in chief as “ce petit bougre.”
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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For, as General Massena incisively if somewhat crudely and ungrammatically remarked: “Ce petit bougre de général leur a fait peur.”
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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A bitter complaint to the Directory referred to his erstwhile commander in chief as “ce petit bougre.”
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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For, as General Massena incisively if somewhat crudely and ungrammatically remarked: “Ce petit bougre de général leur a fait peur.”
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Belge, mon cher, tu sais que l'on se sentirait forcé à risquer le déplaisir de ces ogres: tandis que, pour un pauvre bougre d'Anglais ...?
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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Fellow. ('tit bougre - little fellow)
July 13, 2009