panocha

• panoche, panoja, panouchi

Borrowed from Spanish panocha.

panocha (countable and uncountable, plural panochas)

1. coarse Mexican brown sugar

• IPA^(key): /paˈnot͡ʃa/ [paˈno.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: pa‧no‧cha

panocha f (plural panoches)

1. alternative form of panoya

Likely from a Mozarabic derivative of a Vulgar Latin *pannucea or *pānucea, based either on Latin pannus (“cloth”) or pānus (“ear of millet”). Despite being heavily associated with panoja, not a straightforward doublet of it.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /paˈnot͡ʃa/ [paˈno.t͡ʃa]

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• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: pa‧no‧cha

panocha f (plural panochas)

1. corncob

   Synonyms: mazorca, elote

2. ear of grain
3. (botany) panicle
4. (Colombia, Chile) pancake made of cornmeal and cheese
5. (Mexico) coarse brown sugar
6. (vulgar, Cuba, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela) pussy (vagina)

• “panocha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “panocha”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “panocha”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
• Guido Gómez de Silva (2001) “panocha”, in Diccionario breve de mexicanismos, Primera edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “panocha”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]