puche

• IPA^(key): /puk͜ǀʰe/

puche

1. spleen

From an Old Northern French variant of Old French puce (“flea”), pulce, from Latin pūlex, pūlicem.

• IPA^(key): /pyʃ/

puche f (plural puches)

1. (Jersey) flea
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 542:

     Ch'est une pouquie de puches.

     They are a sackful of fleas.

• hèrbe à puches (“blue fleabane; wormwood”)
• puche dé tèrre (“flea beetle”)

• poche
• poque (Old Northern French)
• pouche
• puque (Old Northern French)

From Frankish *pokō (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *pukô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

puche oblique singular, f (oblique plural puches, nominative singular puche, nominative plural puches)

1. bag

• pochete

• English: pouch, poke (through the Old Northern French variant poque, Anglo-Norman poke)
• French: poche

puche

1. inflection of puchar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative