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noun, feminine

bique

/bik/

noun, feminine/bik/plural: biques

bique is feminine in French.

she-goat; female horse, mare; bat, bag, witch (old woman)

Inherited from Middle French bique, originally dialectal (northern France), of obscure origin. Likely of North Germanic origin related to Icelandic bikkja (“old mare, nag”). Compare Norman biche (“goat", also "drunken woman”).