cachear

Attested circa 1750. Perhaps from cacho (“fragment (of potato)”).^[1] Alternatively, from northern Old French cachier (“to chase”); compare English catch.

• IPA^(key): /kat͡ʃeˈaɾ/

cachear (first-person singular present cacheo, first-person singular preterite cacheei, past participle cacheado)
cachear (first-person singular present cacheio, first-person singular preterite cacheei, past participle cacheado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to inspect; to search carefully for something that is hidden

   Synonym: rexistrar

2. (transitive) to frisk (to search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing)

   Synonyms: apalpar, rexistrar

3. (transitive) to pick up a plant of potato to assess how the harvest will be
4. (transitive) to pick up the potatoes of a field

   Synonyms: apañar, coller

• cachar

• Spanish: cachear

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cachear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cachear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cachear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cachear” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cachear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From cacho +‎ -ear.

• Hyphenation: ca‧che‧ar

cachear (third-person only, third-person singular present cacheia, third-person singular preterite cacheou, past participle cacheado)

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• “cachear”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cachear”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “cachear” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cachear”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cachear”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cachear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /kat͡ʃeˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧che‧ar

Borrowed from Galician cachear.^[1]

cachear (first-person singular present cacheo, first-person singular preterite cacheé, past participle cacheado)

1. to search; to frisk

From caché +‎ -ear or cache +‎ -ear.

cachear (first-person singular present cacheo, first-person singular preterite cacheé, past participle cacheado)

1. (computing) to cache
   • 2013, Luc Van Lancker, Los API JavaScript de HTML5, Ediciones ENI, →ISBN, page 280:

     Observe que la URL que se usa en el manifiesto puede ser relativa o absoluta y nada impide cachear los recursos situados en otro dominio diferente al de la página que declara el manifiesto.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “cachear”, 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