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debouch

Meaningthe cheek

Common meaning: emerge from a narrow place

Journey through time

  1. Latinbucca‘the cheek’source
  2. Frenchmeaning shiftsthe cheek → to uncork, to emergedéboucher‘to uncork, to emerge’source
  3. Englishdebouch‘emerge from a narrow place’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin bucca ‘the cheek’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry DEBOUCH, p. 155 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • bucca Latin “the cheek”

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