buche

• IPA^(key): /byʃ/

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buche f (plural buches)

1. post-1990 spelling of bûche

• “buche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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buche

1. inflection of buchen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

buche f

1. plural of buca

buche

1. Alternative form of bicche

buche oblique singular, f (oblique plural buches, nominative singular buche, nominative plural buches)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of boche
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     Li quens Rollant ad la buche sanglente.

     Count Roland had a bloody mouth

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic боукꙑ (buky).

buche f (plural buchi)

1. letter

From Late Latin bucula, from Vulgar Latin *buccula, from Latin bucca. The form was influenced by Old French bouge (“small bag”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbut͡ʃe/ [ˈbu.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -utʃe
• Syllabification: bu‧che

buche m (plural buches)

1. (ornithology, anatomy) crop (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 1:

     La causa por que el Alicanto no puede volar, no reside en sus alas, que son perfectamente normales, sino en su buche, por la pesadez de los alimentos que ingiere.

     The reason that the Alicanto cannot fly is not to be found in its wings, which are perfectly normal, but in its crop, due to the weight of the foods it eats.

2. (colloquial) belly

   llenar el buche ― to fill one's belly or one's mouth

3. mouthful

   Synonym: trago

• “buche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28