Boches

Boches -- ils vont en payer cher -- les Boches_, 'muttered fifty times a day, was the burden of his song.

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

You'll still hear Germans called "Boches" by Dutch and French people occasionally.

From Bohemia to the battlefields and back again, our dainty heroine describes her adventures 2010

Where, for instance, does that nickname come from applied by them to the enemy -- the "Boches"?

New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

"Boches," as they call the Germans, overran the country last August and September, they took all the wine from the saloon keepers and brewers, and the best horses, cattle and hogs from the farmers.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

We are out of ammunition and bombs, and the 'Boches' have us in a trap.

Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey 1923

These brutal 'Boches' are going to put themselves in a veritable death-trap.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

"Boches" was what the French soldiers always called the Germans.

Fighting in France Ross Kay 1916

"Boches" were properly pruned they might be acceptable second-rate members of international society; and Leon who wanted the Kaiser put to the plow in a coat of corduroy as the best cure for his conceit.

My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915

The French people never speak of them as Germans; they always call them "Boches", which, rendered in

A Journey Through France in War Time 1883

“Ah! That bloody old war, the Boches will be the ones to recover quick from it!

Time Regained 2003