cachucha

English

Etymology

From Spanish cachucha.

Noun

cachucha (plural cachuchas)

1. A dance, in triple time and related to the flamenco and fandango, from Andalusia
2. A kind of sweet pepper grown in the Caribbean.

French

Noun

cachucha f (plural cachuchas)

1. cachucha

Further reading

• “cachucha”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

From cacho (“head; bowl”) +‎ -ucha. First attested in 1746.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈt͡ʃut͡ʃa/ [kɑˈt͡ʃu.t͡ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -utʃa

Noun

cachucha f (plural cachuchas)

1. (cooking) cured pork head, locally considered a delicacy

   Synonyms: cachaza, cacheira, cachola

2. cap

   Synonym: pucha

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cachucha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cachucha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cachucha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From cachucho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈt͡ʃut͡ʃa/ [kaˈt͡ʃu.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -utʃa
• Syllabification: ca‧chu‧cha

Noun

cachucha f (plural cachuchas)

1. (dance) cachucha
2. (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia) baseball cap

   Synonyms: gorra, jockey (Chile, Paraguay)

3. (vulgar, El Salvador, Paraguay, Argentina, uncommon in Uruguay) vulva; vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Descendants

• → Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec: kachúcha

Further reading

• “cachucha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10