broche

Borrowed from French broche.

broche (plural broches)

1. Obsolete form of brooch.

broche (third-person singular simple present broches, present participle broching, simple past and past participle broched)

1. Obsolete form of broach.

• “broche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French broche.

• IPA^(key): /brɔʃ/

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• Hyphenation: broche

broche f or n (plural broches, diminutive brocheje n or brochetje n)

1. a brooch

   Synonyms: sierspeld, speld

• brochette

• → Indonesian: bros

Inherited from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed or prominent-toothed”), ultimately from Gaulish, compare Old Irish brog (“awl”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

broche f (plural broches)

1. (jewelry) brooch, pin
2. (cooking) spit, skewer

   poulet à la broche ― chicken on the spit

3. spike, peg

• attacher sa tuque avec de la broche
• brocher
  • brochure
• brochet
• brochette
• embrocher

broche

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

• “broche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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broche f (invariable)

1. (mycology) sheathed woodtuft (Kuehneromyces mutabilis (synonym: Pholiota mutabilis))

   Synonym: famigliola gialla

Borrowed from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, from Latin broccus.

• brooche, brouche, bruche, brush

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔːt͡ʃ(ə)/

broche (plural broches)

1. A spear or pike; a weapon for impalement.
2. A spit; a rod for cooking meat on.
3. A brooch; jewelry mounted on a pin.
4. Any piece of jewelry or ornamentation.
5. Any other long rod, pole, or needle.
6. (rare, figurative) Something very valuable.

• brochen

• English: broach, brooch
• Scots: broach, brutch, bruch, broche, brotch

• “brōche, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-16.

broche

1. Alternative form of brochen

Inherited from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp”).

broche f (plural broches)

1. (Jersey, cooking) spit

• r'pas à la broche

Inherited from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp”).

broche oblique singular, f (oblique plural broches, nominative singular broche, nominative plural broches)

1. brooch, pin (jewellery)
2. (cooking) spit

• French: broche
• → Galician: brocha (“pin; nail”)
• → Middle English: broche, brooche, brouche, bruche, brush
  • English: broach, brooch
  • Scots: broach, brutch, bruch, broche, brotch

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (broche, supplement)

• Hyphenation: bro‧che

Borrowed from French broche.^[1][2] Doublet of broca.

broche m (plural broches)

1. brooch
2. clasp
3. (Portugal, vulgar) blowjob

   Synonyms: (formal) felação; see also Thesaurus:felação

broche

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

Borrowed from French broche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾot͡ʃe/ [ˈbɾo.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: bro‧che

broche m (plural broches)

1. clasp, brooch
2. paperclip
3. cuff link, cufflink
4. (figurative) punch line (final, concluding statement)

   poner el broche ― to round off

5. (Argentina) clothes peg

   Synonym: pinza

• “broche”, 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