puche

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puk͜ǀʰe/

Noun

puche

1. spleen

Norman

Etymology

From an Old Northern French variant of Old French puce (“flea”), pulce, from Latin pūlex, pūlicem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyʃ/

Noun

puche f (plural puches)

1. (Jersey) flea
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 542:

     Ch'est une pouquie de puches.

     They are a sackful of fleas.

Derived terms

• hèrbe à puches (“blue fleabane; wormwood”)
• puche dé tèrre (“flea beetle”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• poche
• poque (Old Northern French)
• pouche
• puque (Old Northern French)

Etymology

From Frankish *pokō (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *pukô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

Noun

puche oblique singular, f (oblique plural puches, nominative singular puche, nominative plural puches)

1. bag

Derived terms

• pochete

Descendants

• English: pouch, poke (through the Old Northern French variant poque, Anglo-Norman poke)
• French: poche

Spanish

Verb

puche

1. inflection of puchar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative