Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the hollow part of the cheek which projects when the cheeks are inflated; also, the entire cheek, and hence the mouth as a whole, with reference to its cavity and all the surrounding parts.
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- noun UK A
storm spirit inCornish folklore , formerly believed to inhabitmines andcoastal communities.
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Examples
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In Sicily the article is more or less adulterated with spurious stuff, such as other kinds of leaves, and an article called bucca, which resembles the juniper bush of New England; this has no value in itself.
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This song may have come from the old days when the 'bucca' were the little folk
Johnny Bucca 2000
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What kind of mental midgets keep voting for "conservatives"? lil bucca
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As a libertarian, I find liberals to be the most vile and least tolerant. lil bucca
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Tihs bee teh chrippul fret tu mi sanneti, mi bucca-neerz !
No LOL key - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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They kind of hussle you on the wine though . $4 a glass and it is really piss poor wine. c&O is pretty much on par with bucca di peppo and a little below Maggiono's in my opinion.
Olive Garden vs. C&O Trattoria, Marina Del Rey - Who's more Italian? e d b m 2005
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"I'd give anything in the world," says the bucca-davy, [I] "ef I cud onnly larn to spayke weth they."
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BUCK, (1) (From the O.Eng. _buc_, a he-goat, and _bucca_, a male deer), the male of several animals, of goats, hares and rabbits, and particularly of the fallow-deer.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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So testa was used in part for caput, and bucca for os.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892
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"` Ye haaf saved bucca, ye mazed totle, that can only frighten women an 'child'n, an burn housen; thee'rt fond o' singin 'an' dancin '-- dance now, will' ee, ye gurt bufflehead, or ef ye waant I'll scat thee head in jowds, an 'send' ee scrougin 'over cliffs, I will.'"
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