bouquin

• IPA^(key): /bu.kɛ̃/

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Middle French boucquain (“rare old book”), from Middle Dutch *boeckin, *boeckijn (“little book”), diminutive of Middle Dutch boec (“book”), (compare Middle Dutch boecskin, boekelkin). More at book, -kin.

bouquin m (plural bouquins)

1. (colloquial) book

• bouquiner
• bouquiniste

Middle French boucquin (“old billy goat”), from bouc (“he-goat”) + -quin or -in.

bouquin m (plural bouquins)

1. buck (male hare)
2. buck (male rabbit)

Middle French bouquin (“mouth of a hunting horn”), perhaps ultimately from Latin bucca (“mouth”).

bouquin m (plural bouquins)

1. the part of a pipe carried in the mouth

• “bouquin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).