bourbe, n.f., mire, mud, dirt.

bourbeu-x, -se, adj., miry, muddy, sloughy, sloshy.

bourbier, n.m., slough, puddle, mire, mud; lurch, plunge, scrape, danger. Il s’est mis dans le —; he has got himself into a scrape.

*bourbillon, n.m., core (of an abscess).

bourcette. V. mâche.

bourdaine, or bourgène, n.f., black alder.

bourdalou, n.m., hat-band; sort of chamber-pot.

bourde, n.f., fib, sham, humbug, lie. Donner une — a quelqu’un; to tell any one a fib.

bourder, v.n., to fib, to sham, to humbug.

bourdeur, n.m., fibber, shammer.