bucha

• Homophones: buchas, buchât

bucha

1. third-person singular past historic of bucher

• Rhymes: -uxa
• Syllabification: bu‧cha

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bucha f

1. (Kuyavia) cloak or long dress without a waist

   Synonym: dęty płaszcz

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bucha

1. third-person singular present of buchać

• Józef Bliziński (1860) “bucha”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 620
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “bucha”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 268
• Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “bucha”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 2

Uncertain, possibly from Old French bousche.^[1]

• Rhymes: -uʃɐ
• Hyphenation: bu‧cha

bucha f (plural buchas)

1. wad (soft seal used in shotgun cartridges and cannons)
2. tampion
3. appetizer

   Synonyms: aperitivo, (Brazil) tira-gosto

4. (colloquial) mouthful, morsel

   Synonym: bocado

5. (colloquial) the hub of a bullock cart
6. loofah (tropical vine of the genus Luffa)
   1. (by extension) loofah (the fruit of this vine)
   2. (by extension) loofah (the fruit's dried fiber)
   3. (by extension, colloquial, Brazil) bath sponge
7. (engineering) bushing
8. (engineering) dowel
9. (electrical engineering) sleeve
10. (colloquial) scam
11. (colloquial) nuisance
12. (colloquial, Portugal) swindle
13. (colloquial, Brazil) a piece of cloth that serves as a flame source for a sky lantern

• → Gujarati: બૂચ (būc)
  • →? Sindhi: ٻوچ (ḇūcu)

bucha m or f by sense (plural buchas)

1. (derogatory) fatty (fat person)
2. (derogatory, Brazil) weak or worthless person

bucha m or f (plural buchas)

1. (derogatory) fat
2. (colloquial) annoying
3. (derogatory, Brazil) weak or worthless

• “bucha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “bucha”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “bucha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “bucha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from English butcher.

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bucha class IX (plural bucha class X)

1. butcher

   Synonym: mchinjaji

2. butchery