buco

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See also: bucò, bućo, bučo, and buço

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.ko/
  • Rhymes: -uko
  • Hyphenation: bù‧co

Etymology 1

From the verb bucare, from buca, or from either Old Frankish *būk (“cavity, stomach”) or Gothic *𐌱𐌿𐌺𐍃 (*būks), both from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, torso”). Compare Occitan/Catalan buc ("torso; cow's chest"). More at bouk.

Noun

buco m (plural buchi)

  1. hole
    • 1911, Grazia Deledda, I giuochi della vita, Fratelli Treves, published 1920, page 90:
      Cumpanzeddu camminava, povera bestia, ma oramai le sue zampe non lasciavano che buchi bianchi sulla neve bianca.
      Cumpanzeddu was walking, that poor animal, but by now his hooves were only leaving white holes in the white snow.
    • 1984, Stefano Benni, Stranalandia, Feltrinelli, published 2015, page 103:
      [Il gufo] s’è fatto un occhio nero nel tentativo di centrare, volando al buio un po’ alticcio, il buco nell’albero dove abita.
      got a black eye when, while flying a bit tispy in the dark, it aimed for the tree hole in which it lives.
  2. gap
  3. aperture
  4. hovel
  5. (vulgar, derogatory, slang) a male homosexual

Etymology 2

Verb

buco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bucare

Anagrams

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

buco f

  1. vocative singular of bucă

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From bȕcmast.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǔːt͡so/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧co

Noun

búco m (Cyrillic spelling бу́цо)

  1. (colloquial) a plump boy

References

  • “buco”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuko/
  • Rhymes: -uko
  • Syllabification: bu‧co

Noun

buco m (plural bucos)

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