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ROMANIAN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

îmbuca.

to eat quickly, gobble up, tongue, swallow, lap

6 characters3 syllables approx.Română language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. to eat quickly, gobble up, tongue, swallow, lap

  2. to take, have

  3. to interlock, mesh

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *imbuccāre, from Latin bucca (“cheek, mouth”). Compare Aromanian mbuc, mbucari, Italian imboccare, French emboucher, Portuguese and Spanish embocar.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.