beaucoupn.adj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈbəʊkuː/,

/ˈbuːkuː/, U.S.

/ˈbuˌku/,

/ˈboʊˌku/

Inflections: Plural beaucoups.

Forms:

α. 1700s– beaucoup.

β. 1800s bookkoo, 1900s– bocoo, 1900s– bokoo, 1900s– boocoo, 1900s– boocup, 1900s– bookoo, 1900s– bow-koo, 1900s– buckcoo.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French beaucoup.

Etymology: < French beaucoup (noun) a large quantity (1379 in Middle French; also late 14th cent. in beaucoup de many; 13th cent. in Old French as biau cop in sense ‘large and beautiful thing’), (adverb) very much, very (1465) < biau , beau beau adj. + cop , coup blow, strike (see coup n.¹).Rare before the 20th cent.; reinforced or reborrowed as a result of the stationing of British and American troops in France during the First World War (1914–18).

Chiefly U.S. colloquial and humorous. rare before the First World War (1914–18).

A. n.

In singular or plural. A large amount or number; a lot, lots, plenty. Frequently with of or in beaucoup de (cf. de prep. 8).In quot. 1760 in a representation of French speech.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount

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a good dealc1430

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a deal?1532

peckc1535

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gallon1575

armful1579

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mickle1599

bushelful1600–12

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fair share1650

heapa1661

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hantle1693

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ton1770

boxload1795

boatload1807

lot1811

dollop1819

swag1819

faggald1824

screed1826

Niagara1828

wad1828

lashings1829

butt1831

slew1839

ocean1840

any amount (of)1848

rake1851

slather1857

horde1860

torrent1864

sheaf1865

oodlesa1867

dead load1869

scad1869

stack1870

jorum1872

a heap sight1874

firlot1883

oodlings1886

chunka1889

whips1888

God's quantity1895

streetful1901

bag1917

fid1920

fleetful1923

mob1927

bucketload1930

pisspot1944

shitload1954

megaton1957

mob-o-ton1975

gazillion1978

buttload1988

shit ton1991

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > an abundance

plentya1250

foison13..

abundance1340

copyc1375

fultha1400

plentya1425

murth?a1450

store1471

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choice1584

horn of plenty (also abundancec1595

wealth1596

cornucopia1611

rifea1614

copia1713

bumper1759

beaucoup1760

lashings1829

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any amount (of)1848

in galore1848

opulence1878

binder1881

lushing1890

1760 S. Foote Minor i. 35 He is damn'd rich, has beaucoup de guineas.

1824 A. Lister Diary 13 Dec. in No Priest but Love (1992) 64 I ought to drink beaucoup of my barley water nitre.

1918 C. J. Swan My Company iv. 47 Have a good look, boys; it's the last femme you'll see for beaucoup de weeks.

1925 H. P. Bailey Shanghaied out of 'Frisco in Nineties xix. 168 ‘Beaucoup of time,’ he returned gruffly. ‘I ken fetch shore, fog or no.’

1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 95 I'll have ‘boo-koos’ in a month.

1985 E. Dundy Elvis & Gladys x. 163 That evening, he had boocups to tell Gladys.

1989 Spare Rib Apr. 45/1 Culture can be used as another guise under which one group can hide to oppress the other. Black people have beaucoup de experience of this.

2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers vii. 340 Bookoos of assorted charms, Your pal, M. Czgowchwz.

B. adj.

1. Many, much, a lot of.In quot. 1862 bookkoo is a representation of the nonstandard speech of a Cherokee Indian: a French influence on the Cherokee can be explained by the two communities' proximity in pre-Civil War America.

ΚΠ

1862 T. Jones Let. in G. W. Sunderland Five Days to Glory (1970) ii. 34 The first thing they seen was the Indians. They were coming yelping like mad devils saying, ‘Bookkoo shoot wagons kill everybody.’ [shoot wagon = cannon].

1918 Sat. Evening Post 9 Nov. 90/2 We've been spendin' beaucoup francs lately for Uncle Sam.

1919 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Sept. 114/1 Here were beaucoup dead boches, and again I halted my command to count noses.

1945 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 3 Nov. 8/3 Man, I really drank beaucoup vino last night!

2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 103/3 Ruby Rims..has raised beaucoup bucks for the Manhattan Plaza AIDS Project.

2002 D. H. Sterry Chicken (2003) ii. 25 I fry boocoo buckets of chicken, and eat them by the stomachful.

2. Of considerable size, length, etc.; big; significant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance

worthlyeOE

mickleeOE

greatc1225

right hand?c1225

solemna1387

materialc1475

superior1526

grand1542

weighty1558

main1581

pregnant1591

pregnate1598

materious1611

moliminous1642

momentous1656

magic1696

all-important1748

big1748

eventful1756

colossal1775

bread and butter1822

bada1825

key1832

all-absorbing1834

earth-moving?1834

earth-shaking1835

earth-shatteringa1859

high-ranking1874

beaucoup1917

major league1951

earth-stopping1956

crucial1957

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > considerable in amount or degree

goodeOE

fairOE

goodlyc1275

largea1375

no littlea1413

substantial1413

unleast?1440

prettya1475

reasonablea1500

substantious1545

substantive1575

sensible1581

pretty and ——1596

goody1597

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considerable1651

sonsy1721

respectable1736

smart1750

quite a little ——1763

gey1796

smartish1799

canny1805

serious1810

right smart1825

dunnamuch1831

snug1833

tidy1839

bonnyish1855

largish1872

a nice little ——1891

significant1898

healthy1901

beaucoup1917

1917 Life 16 Aug. 276/2 Bookoo moon to-night, nace paw?

1919 P. M. Fiske Hist. 350th Regiment U.S. Infantry 110 On the night of October 29th we polished our hobnails on a ‘beaucoup’ hike to Rougegoutte.

1994 K. Nolan Magnificent Bastards xiv. 225 There's a beaucoup bunch of people moving out of Dinh To.

C. adv.

Very; very much. Also: in abundance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very

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swith971

wellOE

fullOE

rightc1175

muchc1225

wellac1275

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endlyc1440

hard?1440

very1448

odda1500

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vastly1664

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bloody1676

ever so1686

heartily1727

real1771

precious1775

quarely1805

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some1867

oh-so1881

storming1883

spanking1886

socking1896

hefty1898

velly1898

fair dinkum1904

plurry1907

Pygmalion1914

dinkum1915

beaucoup1918

dirty1920

molto1923

snorting1924

honking1929

hellishing1931

thumpingly1948

way1965

mega1966

mondo1968

seriously1970

totally1972

mucho1978

stonking1990

1918 E. Hemingway Let. 11 Nov. (2011) I. 152 I'm pulling through my annual tonsilitis now so feel bokoo rotten.

1921 Amer. Legion Weekly 20 May 10 I like that beaucoup.

1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. 193/1 [Louisiana] She's got money boocoo.

1985 L. Lochhead True Confessions 26 If we'd only stuck to Perrier...You'd have loved me more and merrier If that Vat Soixante-Neuf had not been so beau...beauc...beaucoup your scene!

2004 E. Reid D.B. i. 48 As he stood there in the damp, dark woods the possible existence of large, smelly apemen seemed beaucoup real.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	beaucoup
释义	beaucoupn.adj.adv. Brit. /ˈbəʊkuː/, /ˈbuːkuː/, U.S. /ˈbuˌku/, /ˈboʊˌku/ Inflections: Plural beaucoups. Forms: α. 1700s– beaucoup. β. 1800s bookkoo, 1900s– bocoo, 1900s– bokoo, 1900s– boocoo, 1900s– boocup, 1900s– bookoo, 1900s– bow-koo, 1900s– buckcoo. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French beaucoup. Etymology: < French beaucoup (noun) a large quantity (1379 in Middle French; also late 14th cent. in beaucoup de many; 13th cent. in Old French as biau cop in sense ‘large and beautiful thing’), (adverb) very much, very (1465) < biau , beau beau adj. + cop , coup blow, strike (see coup n.¹).Rare before the 20th cent.; reinforced or reborrowed as a result of the stationing of British and American troops in France during the First World War (1914–18). Chiefly U.S. colloquial and humorous. rare before the First World War (1914–18). A. n. In singular or plural. A large amount or number; a lot, lots, plenty. Frequently with of or in beaucoup de (cf. de prep. 8).In quot. 1760 in a representation of French speech. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > an abundance plentya1250 foison13.. abundance1340 copyc1375 fultha1400 plentya1425 murth?a1450 store1471 sonsea1500 banquet?1507 fouth1535 choice1584 horn of plenty (also abundancec1595 wealth1596 cornucopia1611 rifea1614 copia1713 bumper1759 beaucoup1760 lashings1829 plethora1835 any amount (of)1848 in galore1848 opulence1878 binder1881 lushing1890 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 35 He is damn'd rich, has beaucoup de guineas. 1824 A. Lister Diary 13 Dec. in No Priest but Love (1992) 64 I ought to drink beaucoup of my barley water nitre. 1918 C. J. Swan My Company iv. 47 Have a good look, boys; it's the last femme you'll see for beaucoup de weeks. 1925 H. P. Bailey Shanghaied out of 'Frisco in Nineties xix. 168 ‘Beaucoup of time,’ he returned gruffly. ‘I ken fetch shore, fog or no.’ 1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 95 I'll have ‘boo-koos’ in a month. 1985 E. Dundy Elvis & Gladys x. 163 That evening, he had boocups to tell Gladys. 1989 Spare Rib Apr. 45/1 Culture can be used as another guise under which one group can hide to oppress the other. Black people have beaucoup de experience of this. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers vii. 340 Bookoos of assorted charms, Your pal, M. Czgowchwz. B. adj. 1. Many, much, a lot of.In quot. 1862 bookkoo is a representation of the nonstandard speech of a Cherokee Indian: a French influence on the Cherokee can be explained by the two communities' proximity in pre-Civil War America. ΚΠ 1862 T. Jones Let. in G. W. Sunderland Five Days to Glory (1970) ii. 34 The first thing they seen was the Indians. They were coming yelping like mad devils saying, ‘Bookkoo shoot wagons kill everybody.’ [shoot wagon = cannon]. 1918 Sat. Evening Post 9 Nov. 90/2 We've been spendin' beaucoup francs lately for Uncle Sam. 1919 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Sept. 114/1 Here were beaucoup dead boches, and again I halted my command to count noses. 1945 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 3 Nov. 8/3 Man, I really drank beaucoup vino last night! 2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 103/3 Ruby Rims..has raised beaucoup bucks for the Manhattan Plaza AIDS Project. 2002 D. H. Sterry Chicken (2003) ii. 25 I fry boocoo buckets of chicken, and eat them by the stomachful. 2. Of considerable size, length, etc.; big; significant. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance worthlyeOE mickleeOE greatc1225 right hand?c1225 solemna1387 materialc1475 superior1526 grand1542 weighty1558 main1581 pregnant1591 pregnate1598 materious1611 moliminous1642 momentous1656 magic1696 all-important1748 big1748 eventful1756 colossal1775 bread and butter1822 bada1825 key1832 all-absorbing1834 earth-moving?1834 earth-shaking1835 earth-shatteringa1859 high-ranking1874 beaucoup1917 major league1951 earth-stopping1956 crucial1957 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > considerable in amount or degree goodeOE fairOE goodlyc1275 largea1375 no littlea1413 substantial1413 unleast?1440 prettya1475 reasonablea1500 substantious1545 substantive1575 sensible1581 pretty and ——1596 goody1597 greatish1611 considerable1651 sonsy1721 respectable1736 smart1750 quite a little ——1763 gey1796 smartish1799 canny1805 serious1810 right smart1825 dunnamuch1831 snug1833 tidy1839 bonnyish1855 largish1872 a nice little ——1891 significant1898 healthy1901 beaucoup1917 1917 Life 16 Aug. 276/2 Bookoo moon to-night, nace paw? 1919 P. M. Fiske Hist. 350th Regiment U.S. Infantry 110 On the night of October 29th we polished our hobnails on a ‘beaucoup’ hike to Rougegoutte. 1994 K. Nolan Magnificent Bastards xiv. 225 There's a beaucoup bunch of people moving out of Dinh To. C. adv. Very; very much. Also: in abundance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1918 E. Hemingway Let. 11 Nov. (2011) I. 152 I'm pulling through my annual tonsilitis now so feel bokoo rotten. 1921 Amer. Legion Weekly 20 May 10 I like that beaucoup. 1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. 193/1 [Louisiana] She's got money boocoo. 1985 L. Lochhead True Confessions 26 If we'd only stuck to Perrier...You'd have loved me more and merrier If that Vat Soixante-Neuf had not been so beau...beauc...beaucoup your scene! 2004 E. Reid D.B. i. 48 As he stood there in the damp, dark woods the possible existence of large, smelly apemen seemed beaucoup real. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.adv.1760
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