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bucca.

jaw, mouth; mouthful; cheek (with blowing a trumpet); cavity (knee joint) (L+S);

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈbʊk.ka]Classical-Latin[ˈbuk.ka]
  1. the soft part of the cheek puffed or filled out in speaking or eating

    declension-1 · feminine
  2. the jaw

    declension-1 · feminine · in-plural
  3. the mouth

    colloquial · declension-1 · feminine
  4. one who fills his cheeks in speaking; declaimer, bawler

    declension-1 · feminine · metonymically
  5. one who stuffs out his cheeks in eating; parasite

    declension-1 · feminine · metonymically
  6. a mouthful

    declension-1 · feminine · metonymically
  7. any cavity in general

    declension-1 · feminine
  8. A catchword of uncertain meaning used in a guessing game, possibly equivalent and/or related to English buck buck.

    declension-1 · feminine
Where this word comes from

Uncertain. Celtic origin is suspected due to similarity with beccus (“beak”), names like Gaulish Buccus, Buccō, Bucciō as well as the appearance of words bocca and boca (of unknown meaning) on the Larzac tablet. IEW compares it with Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew, *bʰew- (“to swell, puff”), whose initial b- would point to a substrate or imitative origin. Compare also English puke, German fauchen.

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