What is "boches"

Usage examples of "boches".

Several patriots suggested floating blazing waves of "Greek fire" down the surface of the river Seine, and others suggested using the river itself as a weapon, by pumping poison into the water where the Seine debouched from the city, thereby to kill all the boches and their horses that drank from it downstream.

In effect, that I must not go to war with Prussia, whatever provocations those boches may goad me with.

I already showed you how the boches have disposed themselves at our frontiers.

At noontime, according to the latest telegraphed communiques from the newspapers' intrepid correspondents, the French were annihilating the Bavarian boches by the thousands.

That entire Fifth Corps, together with what debris remained of the First and Seventh, was now in pell-mell retreat westward, with the whole Third Army of the boches in hot pursuit, and nothing to stop their advancing clear to the Moselle River.

Even when their officers placed pickets on lookout for any reappearance of the boches, those officers themselves were so disoriented that many of them put their guards out to the north and east, although they had left the entire enemy army behind them to the west and south.

He added languidly, "You may depend on it: if the boches do not lay waste to France, the French will.

The authorities could only post announcements that the boches were still being held at bay, and that Paris herself was well prepared for any onslaught.

There was no organized force to stop the boches between the river Meuse and this very building, outside which the crowd yelled over and over, "République!

Scouts sent out from the forts returned to report that the boches were bringing their own artillery from the east, and setting the guns in position—mostly south and east of the city—and those heavy steel, breech-loading cannon did have the range to belabor the forts that could not reach them.

And a great deal of newspaper space and wall space was given to cheer the Parisians with the ringing war cry of General Antoine Chanzy, who was feverishly organizing a new Army of the Loire at Orléans: "The boches have only Paris.

One was that the boches occupying Versailles were looting the community, enslaving all the males and raping all the females—including the nuns of the parishes of Notre-Dame and St-Louis—and were carrying off to Berlin all the art treasures of the château and the Trianons.

Paris need not fear the boches at all, went that story, because the gunboat could freely cruise the sinuosities of the Seine throughout the city, the Ourcq Canal and the Marne through Charenton.

The work was of course done under my supervision, but it was done hurriedly—haphazardly, I fear—and she was inflated with coal gas at the Gare de Lyon, then run up on a tether from the Quai de Bercy, to see if the observer she carries can make out what the boches are doing south of Charenton, in the way of preparation for an assault.

The only notes he has dropped from the gondola, since he has been up there today, say that the boches are doing absolutely nothing down below, except pointing and taking rifle shots at him.