Noun: buche
Gender: m
Hyphenation: bu‧che
| Singular m | buche |
| Plural m | buches |
Sample Sentences
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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 heaviness of the foods it eats.) [1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 1:]
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llenar el buche (to fill one's belly or one's mouth)
Nouns inflected like buche
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Late Latin buccula, from Vulgar Latin *buccula, from Latin bucca. The form was influenced by Old French bouge (“small bag”). See: Latin Nouns '
bucca'.
Verbs referencing "buche"
English Nouns
buchi, Portuguese Nouns
bucho.
Translations