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.