quiche

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Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche (“cake”), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”), whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”)). Compare Persian کوکو (kuku, “quiche”). More at cake.

The sexually alluring sense orignates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".

• IPA^(key): /kiːʃ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːʃ

quiche (countable and uncountable, plural quiches)

1. A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.

• → Japanese: キッシュ (kisshu)
• → Korean: 키슈 (kisyu), 키쉬 (kiswi)

quiche (comparative more quiche, superlative most quiche)

1. (slang) Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring.

   I'm not even bragging, but me and my friends are pretty much quiche.

• chequi

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

quiche

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Unadapted borrowing from French quiche.

• IPA^(key): /kiʃ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: qui‧che

quiche f (plural quiches, diminutive quicheje n)

1. quiche

• IPA^(key): /kiʃ/

From Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche, from Middle High German kuoche, from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô, from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”). First attested in French in 1805. More at cake.

quiche f (plural quiches)

1. (cooking) quiche

   Synonym: ouiche

2. (colloquial) slap; blow, strike

   Synonym: gifle

3. (colloquial, derogatory) a completely unskilled person

   Synonyms: nul, zéro

   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 33:

     Il avait dit quelque chose de désagréable comme « elle a l’air tellement quiche celle-là je préfère encore me taper une meuf en plastique » et Alexandre avait ri jaune.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From esquicher.

quiche f (plural quiches)

1. (slang) puke, vomit

quiche

1. inflection of quicher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “quiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• chique

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

quiche

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• kisz

Unadapted borrowing from French quiche.

• IPA^(key): /kiʂ/
• Rhymes: -iʂ
• Syllabification: quiche

quiche m inan

1. quiche (savoury pie)

• quiche in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French quiche. Doublet of cuca.

• Hyphenation: qui‧che

quiche (Portugal, Brazil) f or (Brazil) m (plural quiches)

1. quiche (pie made of eggs and cream)

• In Portugal quiche is mostly used as a feminine noun whereas Brazil shows a more mixed m/f usage.^[1]

Borrowed from French quiche. Doublet of kuchen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiʃ/
  • Rhymes: -iʃ
• IPA^(key): /ˈkit͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -itʃe
  • Syllabification: qui‧che

quiche m or f same meaning (plural quiches)

1. quiche (pie made from eggs)

   Synonym: tarta

• “quiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014